Cross-compiling standard utilities for 860

[Matthew R Wette]

Wolfgang Denk writes ...
>
> In message <388F1A55.D62E35B4 at netx4.com> Dan Malek wrote:
> >
> > You have to be careful here.  If you choose to use the in-line
> > floating point software, you must use it for all applications
> > because the libraries are built to do this as well.  You can't
> > mix programs that use the kernel FPU emulation and also in-line
> > software floating-point.  The kernel works out of the floating
> > point register area in the TSS, while the software float assigns
> > real processor registers (and other memory locations) to contain
> > the floating-point values.
>
> I am aware that  I  cannot  mix  this  WITHIN  ONE  application,  for
> instance  compiling  the  app  with  soft-float and linking against a
> library that uses the kernel FPU emulation.
>
> Are there really problems when running soft-float only  and  FPU  emu
> only applications on the same machine? I did not expect any...

I think this may be a problem if the compiler uses registers to pass
arguments to and/or return values from functions.  I'd guess if you
can fix that issue then you might be OK.

Matt


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