Re: [PATCH] Removed Soft float from MIPS

On Aug 14 06:51, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a good idea to me.


Corinna