Re: Hard/Soft FPU

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.openzaurus.devel
Organization Institute of Computer Science, University of Frankfurt
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Donnerstag, den 13.04.2006, 10:23 +0200 schrieb Giorgio Marzano:
> Could it be possible to improve the "compat" libs with hard fpu support?

In theory yes - it would be possible to generate a stub that tranlates
hard fpu into soft fpu, when I met Tim Ansell (mithro) in Frankfurt last
year, we talked a bit about that.

In practice, it's pretty complicated though.

> BTW i guess there are no apps working with compat-libs but with
> soft-fpu? What are "compat" libs intended for?

The compat libraries are to overcome the differences in the C++ ABI that
vastly changed between the ancient 2.95.x and todays 3.x g++ compilers.

Without the compat-libs, the commercial 2.95.x compiled apps wouldn't
run at all on modern distributions.
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Regards,

Mickey.
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