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From: WANG Xuerui <i.swmail@xen0n.name>
To: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>, WANG Xuerui <i.swmail@xen0n.name>,
	binutils@sourceware.org
Cc: Chenghua Xu <xuchenghua@loongson.cn>,
	Zhensong Liu <liuzhensong@loongson.cn>,
	Qinggang Meng <mengqinggang@loongson.cn>,
	WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elfedit: add support for editing e_flags
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 16:53:25 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <660c58cc-10bf-c43b-aded-27a27300cea3@xen0n.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <502da978c3a38a5216a0d9abbbe3ebf22f8688e5.camel@xry111.site>

On 2023/3/2 16:20, Xi Ruoyao wrote:
> On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 16:01 +0800, WANG Xuerui wrote:
>
>> I have to pick up the work because I was trying to make AMDGPU DCN work
>> on LoongArch, but that piece of code requires hard-float support while
>> the LoongArch Linux kernel is compiled in the soft-float ABI, leading to
>> link-time failures intermixing the two.
> IMO we should keep soft-float ABI while enabling the FPU (i. e.
> -mabi=lp64s -mfpu=64).  But ouch, this does not work properly with
> current GCC...  -mfpu=64 silently enables using FPR to pass arg and
> return value, w/o even a warning.  Not sure about Clang.
>
> <rant>I remember I've been saying "floating ABI and floating instruction
> set should be de-coupled" multiple times: "I" in "ABI" stands for
> "interface" anyway and all the interfaces are just designed for hiding
> implementation details.  But it seems nobody took it seriously.</rant>

Yeah. I remember the Toolchain Conventions has similar words so I've 
immediately tried `-mdouble-float` without `-mabi=lp64d`, after seeing 
the rejected interlinks, only to see the ABI implicitly promoted to 
LP64D nevertheless...


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-02  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-02  8:01 WANG Xuerui
2023-03-02  8:20 ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-03-02  8:53   ` WANG Xuerui [this message]
2023-03-02  9:04     ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-03-02 10:42       ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-03-02 11:02         ` WANG Xuerui
2023-03-02 11:21           ` Xi Ruoyao
2023-03-03  1:28             ` Weining Lu
2023-03-02 16:11           ` Xi Ruoyao

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