> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Sheheryar Zahoor Qazi > <sheheryar.zahoor.q...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am trying to provide soft-fp support to a an 18-bit soft-core > > processor architecture at my university. But the problem is that > > libgcc has not been cross-compiled for my target architecture and > some > > functions are missing so i cannot build libgcc.I believe soft-fp is > > compiled in libgcc so i am usable to invoke soft-fp functions from > > libgcc. > > It is possible for me to provide soft-fp support without using > libgcc. > > How should i proceed in defining the functions? Any idea? And does > any > > archoitecture provide floating point support withoput using libgcc? > > I'm sorry, I don't understand the premise of your question. It is not > necessary to build libgcc before building libgcc. That would not make > sense. If you have a working compiler that is missing some functions > provided by libgcc, that should be sufficient to build libgcc.
If you replace "cross-compiled" with "ported", I think it makes senses. Can one provide soft-fp support without porting libgcc for their architecture? Cheers, Ian
