On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:57:52AM -0400, Whaley, Robert wrote: > I think for now, only the old FPA memory layout is used in Debian > binaries. I think this is the format you describe in your message > that's causing the problem.
This is true on the Netwinder redhat-like distribution as well. > In the longer term I wonder how the transition to the new memory layout > and VFP instructions would be accomplished... Its a rather drastic change - to generate VFP you need a new toolchain, and a new glibc as well. This lets you bootstrap and then compile everything with VFP. From what I've been led to believe, it is not possible to have a hybrid system. I've played with it a little bit (using Nicholas Pitre's patch for gcc-3.3) but can't say I have it mastered yet :) > > As discussed below (the good stuff is at the end), I've > > traced the mozilla segfault to their PR_dtoa function, which > > converts doubles to strings. I wonder why mozilla would have any system-specific code like this at all. Conversion from float/double to string is handled in glibc via printf() and its helpers - is there some reason why this cannot be used? -- Ralph Siemsen www.netwinder.org
