fenv soft-float support
Sebastian Huber
sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
Tue Jul 14 08:00:54 GMT 2020
Hello,
the recent fenv patches added support for the soft-float implementation
of FreeBSD. Newlib uses the one from libgcc by default. They are not
compatible. Having an GCC incompatible soft-float fenv support in Newlib
makes no sense to me.
How can we fix this?
As a short-term fix, I would remove the FreeBSD fenv support. What
should we provide instead? I would just provide the hardware
implementation of the architecture for now. If someone uses this in a
soft-float configuration, he may get exceptions or some sort of
undefined behaviour. This is what you get on powerpc currently.
A long-term solution would be to add support for the GCC soft-float
implementation in libgcc. This requires changes in the GCC
configuration. I guess this is a bit of work.
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