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Re: [PATCH] libgcc variant (was: [PATCH] Optionally emit SSE ABI libm calls on x86)
- From: Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>,Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>,Richard Guenther <rguenther at suse dot de>,Uros Bizjak <uros at kss-loka dot si>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:18:29 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] libgcc variant (was: [PATCH] Optionally emit SSE ABI libm calls on x86)
- References: <42CD8A16.6020905@kss-loka.si> <m364vhnpdr.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> <20050711191834.GA28478@redhat.com>
> My guess is that most other processor variants will be embedded,
> and take the normal course of simply changing the ABI to nicely
> accomodate their new feature. I suppose arm-linux might be an
> exception here, since in theory it supports at least 3 fp units.
This could definitely be useful for arm eabi based targets where the standard
abi uses soft-float calling conventions even when a hardware fpu is present.
Paul