From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25254 invoked by alias); 15 Nov 2007 20:32:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 25245 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Nov 2007 20:32:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from chip8og55.obsmtp.com (HELO chip8og55.obsmtp.com) (64.18.15.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:32:22 +0000 Received: from source ([12.110.134.31]) by chip8ob55.postini.com ([64.18.7.12]) with SMTP; Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:31:25 PST Received: from pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com.equallogic.com ([172.25.202.114]) by M31.equallogic.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:31:41 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18236.44204.124408.642924@pkoning-laptop.equallogic.com> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:32:00 -0000 From: Paul Koning To: rsandifo@nildram.co.uk Cc: ths@networkno.de, joseph@codesourcery.com, binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Add a GNU attribute for -mips32 -mfp64 objects References: <20071114202400.GT8363@networkno.de> <20071115004530.GU8363@networkno.de> <87k5ojl0il.fsf@firetop.home> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 19) "Constant Variable" XEmacs Lucid X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg00180.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Sandiford writes: Richard> I agree with Joseph here. Although it's redundant to Richard> specify -mfp64 with -msoft-float, it isn't actively wrong. Richard> The options have traditionally been orthogonal. I don't Richard> think the assembler should assume that -mfp64 implies Richard> -mhard-float. It seems strange, since -msoft-float means no float registers, while -mfp64 says there are float registers and they are 64 bits wide. paul