Re: [PATCH] Removed Soft float from MIPS

Sebastian Huber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13/08/2020 15:10, Joel Sherrill wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 3:19 AM Corinna Vinschen via Newlib <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 13 03:05, Eshan dhawan via Newlib wrote:
>>> This Patch removes Soft Float code from MIPS.
>>> Instead It adds the soft float code from RISCV
>> Why, and why is that the right thing to do?
>>
> The code came from FreeBSD and assumes the FreeBSD softfp
> implementation not the one with GCC. That was an overlooked and
> fixed in the other fenv code already.
There is now a lot of copy and paste involved in the fenv support. I 
think the soft float support should be unified with a shared 
implementation. This can be later enhanced with support for the GCC soft 
float implementation.
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