Enforcing soft-float.

Juli Mallett juli at clockworksquid.com
Tue Mar 13 14:50:53 UTC 2012


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 07:41, Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Juli Mallett <juli at clockworksquid.com> wrote:
>> Greetings, people of mips@,
>>
>> I think that at least with 64-bit kernels, MipsFPTrap should kill the
>> running program.  Does anyone object to this?  The FP code is not even
>> remotely 64-bit safe.  I don't care/dare to correct it.  Does anyone?
>
> Looks like we share this code with NetBSD. I have not looked in
> detail, but the NetBSD code seems to have the ifdefs for n64. Any idea
> if we can just import it?

We could, and we could update MipsFPTrap and friends from NetBSD (or
even do it by hand), but that's not something I want to do since I
don't need to run binaries compiled to use hardware floating point.


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