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David Daney wrote:

> Instead of pretending that there is a single ABI that happens to change 
> depending on the options passed to the compiler (hard or soft float), 
> you could explicitly support both hard and soft float ABIs in libffi.
> 
> This wouldn't necessarily make libjava work any better, but it would 
> give you the flexibility of being able to use a hard-float libffi to 
> call between hard-fload and soft-float ABI code.
> 
> FWIW, this is what I did for MIPS libffi.

For the record, I took this as suggestion to rework the patch and I 
found during this work that I also have to bring support for 
long-double-128 soft-float.
This is a bit tricky, so I will take some time.

The soft-float long-double-64 support is implemented now in the way 
David suggested. (I hope it is ;)

The soft-float long-double-128 is on the way to come.

Just fyi.

Andreas