On Thu Oct 30, 2003 at 11:45:56AM -0700, Liberty Young wrote: > Wookey replied to my privately by accident. Here is his reply: > > > There would need to be a separate hard-float distro for that. > > > Each and every binary and library compiled for soft-float would > > > be totally incompatible with hard-float. > > > > Would this mean that uClibc would NOT work for processors such as the > > AMD ElanSC520 (i486 with FPU) ? > > No - the soft-float default woule only apply to arm, where real hardware > FPU > is almost non-existent in real CPUs (there are 2 (out of at least 25), > and > one is obsolete). For other arches we have whatever build options are > most > sensible for them.
However (unlike glibc) you _could_ build a full soft-float uClibc/x86 toolchain so you could run your 386sx-16 without the kernel fpu emulator if you are into the retro thing. :-) Though on x86 you would have to live with mere 64 bit long doubles in that configuration. -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
