[PATCH] arm: Improve documentation for effective target 'arm_softfloat'

Kyrylo Tkachov Kyrylo.Tkachov@arm.com
Fri Dec 11 11:19:55 GMT 2020



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrea Corallo <Andrea.Corallo@arm.com>
> Sent: 01 December 2020 13:52
> To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
> Cc: Kyrylo Tkachov <Kyrylo.Tkachov@arm.com>; Richard Earnshaw
> <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>; nd <nd@arm.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] arm: Improve documentation for effective target
> 'arm_softfloat'
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'd like to submit the following patch to better specify the meaning
> of the 'arm_softfloat' effective target.
> 
> As I've recently discovered we can have cases where '-mfloat-abi=hard'
> is used and the compiler correctly defines '__SOFTFP__'.
> 
> Effectively 'arm_softfloat' is checking if the target requires floating
> point emulation but not what ABI is used, so I think would be nice to
> specify that in the documentation.
> 
> Okay for trunk?

Ok.
Thanks,
Kyrill

> 
> Thanks
> 
>   Andrea
> 


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