Re: [PATCH] ARM: Use different linker path for hardfloat ABI

[Steve McIntyre <steve dot mcintyre at linaro dot org>]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 01:16:27PM +1200, Michael Hope wrote:
>On 5 April 2012 12:07, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>
>> No. ?A system is either purely hard-float or purely soft-float, and the
>> same paths are used for both so they can't coexist. ?(Mismatches at
>> *static* link time are detected through object attributes.)
>
>Ah, the same as ARM then.  The MIPS community would need something
>similar to this patch if they wanted to support soft and hard float
>side by side.

Yes, definitely.

>>> Big endian is extremely uncommon on ARM and I'd rather define it when
>>> needed. ?For strictness sake I'll change the patch to use the new path
>>> for hard float little endian only.
>>
>> I don't think that's correct; the new path should be used independent of
>> endian, just as the existing path is.
>
>OK.
>
>>?But any multiarch support patch
>> should presumably define separate multiarch paths for each endianness.
>
>That's up to Debian.  I've asked for documentation on the final tuples
>and what they mean as the one at:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/Tuples
>
>is out of date.  I prefer defining what is needed now and doing others
>as needed.

I'm most of the way through an update for that page now; I'll ask for
comments/review shortly.

Cheers,
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Steve McIntyre                                steve.mcintyre@linaro.org
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