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List:       uclibc
Subject:    uClibc patches for sh-2
From:       vapier () gentoo ! org (Mike Frysinger)
Date:       2006-10-23 8:18:44
Message-ID: 200610230418.46002.vapier () gentoo ! org
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On Monday 23 October 2006 03:10, Paul Mundt wrote:
> No, userspace soft-float is still the way to go, just no one has written
> up the patch for it yet.

ah ok, i thought i was going crazy for a second there :)

> On the other hand, hardfloat emulation gives us 
> some better ABI consistency between SH-3 and SH-4. Since these binaries
> would hit an illegal instruction otherwise, we're not really "losing"
> anything by trapping them and fixing them up, even if the performance
> is sub-optimal.

sure ... develop with hard float turned off, but keeping the emulation in the 
final product is always a sane thing ... i'd rather have a product that ran a 
little bit slower every once in a while than crashed ...
-mike
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