Re: Bug#358772: glibc can not be cross-compiled with softfloat for ARM
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:52:44AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> The current glibc includes support for the arm-softfloat architecture,
> using the patch that has been sent via this bug.
>
> What's the current status of the arm-softfloat architecture? If I
> understand correctly, it has been more or less replaced by the armel
> (ARM EABI) architecture, which is supported in the experimental glibc.
>
> I don't really want to keep this patch if it is not used anymore.
> Moreover it breaks other architectures, so it needs to be applied
> conditionally.
IMHO, if you're going to switch to an incompatible ABI anyway, you
might as well just switch to EABI, with all the advantages that that
brings.
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