Dear =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=, In message <yw1x7hcw5f6w....@unicorn.mansr.com> you wrote: > > > So whats the reasoning to use -msoft-float as it is currently done? To > > confuse people? ;) > > I guess it's there to make sure no floating-point instructions make it > into u-boot, even though floats are not used in the code. Perhaps > someone was paranoid.
No. There are pretty good reasons to use -msoft-float. On some systems certain versions of GCC will optimize certain operations (usually corresponding to 8 byte memory copy things) by using FP registers. -msoft-float prevents that. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. -- Dave Olson _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
