Re: soft float on a hard flat capable machine ?

2015-09-22 10:14 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 08:59 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while building nodejs 4.1.0~dfsg-2 (not -3) it seems i can't enable
> >   -D__mips_soft_float
> > It errors out with [0]
> >   gnu/stubs-o32_soft.h: No such file or directory
> > Indeed, there is only one header in that directory.
> > Is it not possible to enable soft float where hard float is available ?
> > Is this a bug ?
>
> On MIPS, soft-float and hard-float use totally incompatible ABIs so you
> would need to recompile the toolchain to use it.
>

So does it imply that mips/mipsel architectures are hard-float ?

Jérémy