Re: Problems compiling . soft-float

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Ralf,

> It's really a major pain.  Softfp isn't defined in the ABI which assumes
> an FPU is available.  As the result there is no provision for mixing
> softfp and fp-less code.
> 
> Something for the binutils to-do list - ld should make mixing hard-fp
> and soft-fp binaries impossible.

Incremental changes to the ABI are pretty bad news.  Isn't it
avoidable in this case?

It seems to me that soft-float programs are either carefully
controlled test cases, or used as part of a 100% soft-float system.

In the first case the programmer had better take care, and in the
second the kernel should have been changed to kill any program with an
FP op-code.

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