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

Andrea Corallo andrea.corallo@arm.com
Fri Dec 11 14:26:54 GMT 2020


Kyrylo Tkachov <Kyrylo.Tkachov@arm.com> writes:

>> -----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

And also this is into trunk as 33314b11ca2.

Thanks!

  Andrea


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