On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:55:17AM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote: > 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. Experience shows that people will use every opportunity to shot themselfes into their foot ... Even a soft-fp system may still have the in-kernel emulator, so be able to execute both soft-fp and hard-fp binaries correctly. But it won't be able to support a mix of both nor would the kernel know that an application is just mixing hard and soft fp. Ralf
