Re: CVS commit: src/libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/powerpc

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 03:56:58PM +0000, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> Module Name:  src
> Committed By: chs
> Date:         Wed Oct 26 15:56:58 UTC 2011
> 
> Modified Files:
>       src/libexec/ld.elf_so/arch/powerpc: Makefile.inc
> 
> Log Message:
> avoid linker warnings with the new binutils by not forcing ld.elf_so
> to be soft-float.  the floating-point usage in ld.elf_so is only
> because of stdarg functions like printf(), and gcc 4.5 is good
> about not actually executing the FP instructions in such functions
> unless FP values are passed to them, which ld.elf_so doesn't do.

I thought gcc had a habit of using FP registers for memory copy?
(Or some other integer-only action)
Or is that only a problem with specific architectures due to the
way the instruction set has been defined to gcc.

        David

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