Subject: Re: lib/34506
To: None <lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <SigmFSK@aol.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 09/15/2006 19:15:17
The following reply was made to PR lib/34506; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: SigmFSK@aol.com
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: lib/34506
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:58:55 EDT
I found that the missing soft-float routines are added to NetBSD's libc.a if
gcc was original built with the configure option --nfp. So compiling
something with -msoft-float isn't very useful if gcc wasn't originally built with
--nfp. Maybe this isn't a bug, but at least its very confusing.
Maybe this could be added to the man page under gcc -msoft-float, or a
netbsd soft-float faq somewhere. I rebuilt the entire userland with MKSOFTFLOAT
and gcc's configure with --nfp (per PR toolchain/34527), and can now generate
-msoft-float executables fine.
/arthur