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Re: Floating point usage
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Floating point usage |
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Thu, 5 Jun 2008 22:53:53 +0200 |
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 10:01:38PM +0200, Vincent Pelletier wrote:
> And there is an except to this except: If -lgcc is specified it will be used,
> and it is for the following archs, as far as I can see:
> - powerpc-ieee1275
> - i386-linuxbios
> - i386-ieee1275
Why would i386-linuxbios and i386-ieee1275 need libgcc but i386-pc don't?
IIRC the tendency is that CISC platforms tend not to need libgcc for floating
point but RISC ones do. Did I make a mistake on these two ports?
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Robert Millan
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