On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 07:11:53PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Michael Meissner
meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On powerpc64-linux systems that run on IBM servers, the 32-bit software
emulation library is not built with the Red Hat and SUSE distributions,
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Michael Meissner
meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
Yes, the second patch just does not build the library or use the
-mstrict-align
option. It is much simpler, but there may be somebody out there that depends
on the functionality. I really don't know, one
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:59:10PM +, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Michael Meissner wrote:
An alternative would be for the powerpc64-linux case, should we just delete
the
software floating emulation multilib and stop using the -mstrict-align,
since
Linux only runs
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Michael Meissner
meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:
On powerpc64-linux systems that run on IBM servers, the 32-bit software
emulation library is not built with the Red Hat and SUSE distributions, but
the
FSF sources still list it as a multilib. This patch
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:45:41PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
This alternative patch just disables building the 32-bit softfloat multlib,
and
removes the -mstrict-align in the powerpc64-linux case.
I have bootstrapped it and had no regressions.
David, which patch do you prefer?
On powerpc64-linux systems that run on IBM servers, the 32-bit software
emulation library is not built with the Red Hat and SUSE distributions, but the
FSF sources still list it as a multilib. This patch adds a configuration
option (--disable-ppc64-swfloat) to disable building this library.
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Michael Meissner wrote:
An alternative would be for the powerpc64-linux case, should we just delete
the
software floating emulation multilib and stop using the -mstrict-align, since
Linux only runs in big endian mode. The software emulation multilib would be
built for
