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Re: [PATCH] linux: Add soft-fp folder for arm with --without-fp


On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> > Based on disassembling a 2.27 binary (2.27 being the first release after 
> > the sysdeps/ieee754/soft-fp directory was added), the sysdeps ordering was 
> > working then, but I confirm it's broken now.  Thus this raises the 
> > question of when the ordering broke, and thus (a) whether it might have 
> > broken for any other configurations using sysdeps/ieee754/soft-fp at the 
> > same time, and thus need fixing for them, (b) whether the breakage broke 
> > ordering for anything other than nofpu directories and (c) whether it 
> > might need a bug filed in Bugzilla if the issue was present in a release.  
> > The addition of /le sysdeps directories is one change that might have had 
> > a risk of breaking such ordering, but I don't know if it was that or not.
> 
> It was the LE/BE sysdeps patch, I will send a new version.

Thanks.  Did the microblaze / sh changes break the sysdeps ordering in 
those cases?  (In the microblaze case, there's no nofpu directory and 
ieee754/soft-fp is in the same Implies file as ieee754/flt-32 and 
ieee754/dbl-64, so maybe there isn't an issue there.)

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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