Re: soft float on a hard flat capable machine ?

2015-09-22 10:43 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 10:30 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > 2015-09-22 10:22 GMT+02:00 James Cowgill <[email protected]>:
> > > On Tue, 2015-09-22 at 10:21 +0200, Jérémy Lal wrote:
> > > > 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 ?
> > >
> > > Yes
> > >
> >
> > Ok then, shouldn't this be written somewhere ?
> >
> > https://www.debian.org/ports/mips/
> > https://wiki.debian.org/MIPSPort
>
> I've added it to the wiki page. Those pages don't get a lot of updates
> though.
>

Good, thank you.
Now about another problem,
https://github.com/paul99/v8m-rb/issues/192#issuecomment-142479915
the question is
Do mips/mipsel use only fp32 ?

Jérémy.