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From: John Carr <jfc@tiac.net>
To: frichard@bbn.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: More info: EGCS-971016 on Solaris2.5/UltraSparc
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199710210156.VAA00690@jfc.> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199710202229.SAA13564@bbn.com>

>      -fns         Turn on the SPARC nonstandard floating-point mode (SPARC)
> 
> Does anyone know what this is?  I don't know if this is a trivial
> thing or a tricky one.

The crt1.o that comes with the Sun compiler checks a global symbol
__fsr_init_value and uses it to set %fsr.  The compiler sets the
symbol (in the .o file defining main?) when -fns is used.  It would be
easy to change gcc and its crt*.o to do the same.


  reply	other threads:[~1997-10-20 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-20 15:30 Fred Richardson
1997-10-20 18:57 ` John Carr [this message]
1997-10-21  0:30 ` Jakub Jelinek

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