Re: gcc-3.3.3 and softfloat?

[Marius Groeger <mgroeger at sysgo dot com>]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Steven Scholz wrote:

> I am using gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2-linux-2.6.8 from crosstool-0.28-rc37 for 
> ARM9.
>
> export KERNELCONFIG=`pwd`/arm.config
> export TARGET=arm-softfloat-linux-gnu
> export TARGET_CFLAGS="-O"
> export GCC_EXTRA_CONFIG="--with-float=soft"
> export GLIBC_EXTRA_CONFIG="--without-fp"
> export BINUTILS_DIR=binutils-2.15
> export GCC_DIR=gcc-3.3.3
> export GLIBC_DIR=glibc-2.3.2
> export LINUX_DIR=linux-2.6.8
> export GLIBCTHREADS_FILENAME=glibc-linuxthreads-2.3.2
>
> Do I have to pass -msoft-float when compiling applications with floating 
> point operations? Or is this flag on by default?

This configuration should default to always use soft float. You can verify
this by checking the preprocessor macros. My cross gcc (which _is_not_
configured for soft-float) gives this output:

  $ touch x.c
  $ arm_v4le-gcc -E -dM -msoft-float x.c  | grep -i fp
  #define _SOFT_FLOAT 1
  $ arm_v4le-gcc -E -dM x.c  | grep -i fp
  $

You compiler should always throw _SOFT_FLOAT. To be 100% certain
you should take a look at the assembly using objdump.

> How do I know if floating point operations are realy handle by the softfloat 
> functions and not by the kernel emulator?

Again, you can always search for float instructions in the 
disassembled code (don't forget the libraries!). Maybe there is some 
kind of exception counter in /proc, have you looked for that?

Regards,
Marius

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