Hi group, Regarding floating point operations in ImageMagick / NetPBM there were suggestions to try out the EABI port. Right now, that seems a bit painful. However, on the Debian EABI port page in the wiki it says that the current way of working (oldabi) is about ten times slower than a program compiled with softfloat, if I understand correctly. I tried simply to use an -msoft-float compiler switch. That issued a 'missing -lfloat' error and that seems to be a very old library removed from debian. IEEE softfloat is software released a long time ago which only creates an object file and doesn't have an ARM template???
I'm really confused. Is it possible for me to just compile ImageMagick / NetPBM with some sort of softfloat support which doesn't generate hard illegal instruction faults and how could I do that? A bit rephrased: I can't figure out how the EABI people will support my slug? If it is possible, is there still a speed gain to be expected from using the EABI port? Thanks, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
