Jason Stahls wrote:
> Well the big problem is that it assumes a FPU, sends the instructions
> to the FPU (which is does have but isn't supported by default), those
> instructions fail, causing the kernel to have to re-issue instructions
> to emulate a FPU. This whole thing takes _forever_, if the distro was
> built with softfloat it wouldn't be as bad, and if built with Mavric
> Crunch would be even better. You can of course, rebuild the distro
> with EABI or softfloat if you want, there's a few people on here
> working on that.
>
Hmm. Are you sure about that? Won't GCC just generate inline code (or
function calls) if you specify that there is no floating point unit?
-Brett
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