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Re: libgcc.a, et. al.


>>>>> Perry Smith writes:

Perry> Maybe you can help on another item.  I recall back around 1995 or so,  
Perry> gcc could not be used for AIX device drivers because it did not  
Perry> handle the floating point registers properly.  I have only a vague  
Perry> memory of this.  Do you recall anything like that?

	GCC will generate uses of floating point registers from source
code that only describes integer computations.  GCC 4.1 will do so less
often, but nothing has changed to prevent it.  One can use the soft-float
option, but this confuses people who want to use floating point registers
in code that does describe floating point computations.

David



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