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Re: soft-fp functions support without using libgcc
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: Sheheryar Zahoor Qazi <sheheryar dot zahoor dot qazi at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Chung-Ju Wu <jasonwucj at gmail dot com>, Paul_Koning at dell dot com, ian dot bolton at arm dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 06:47:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: soft-fp functions support without using libgcc
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On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Sheheryar Zahoor Qazi
<sheheryar.zahoor.qazi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>Building libgcc is not optional. It is required for all targets.
>
> So, irrespective whether i provide floating point implementation by
> soft-fp, fpu-bit or ieeelib, an error free libgcc build is a MUST?
Yes.
> What if I dont want to generate calls to libgcc.a but want want gcc to
> generate inline code?
libgcc also provides functionality that GCC requires that can not
reasonably be inlined, such as the stack unwind code used for
exception handling.
Ian