Re: [Fwd: Re: Has anyone successfully built an EABI/iwmmxt image?]

Rene Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:51, Koen Kooi wrote:
>
>>>>>I wouldn't recommend it. There is bound to be some collateral damage
>>>>
>>>>>from packages with hard-wired assumptions about the old ABI, and it
>>>>
>>>>>could well take more than a couple of weeks to shake that out. Also,
>>>>>this would be a big ABI break for Familiar, which will require a bit of
>>>>>discussion beforehand.
>>>
>>>
>>>That's what I was affraid of. I intended to make 0.9.0 eabi, so it
>>>looks
>>>like 0.8.3 will see the light before that. And I should increase the
>>>occurence of "eabi" on familiar-dev mails a bit. I guess the previous
>>>mails weren't obvious enough :). CC:-ing familiar-dev and oz-devel to
>>>incite for discussions.
>>
>>Nobody has an opinion on this?
>
>
> Personally, I lack the necessary technical background knowledge to
> comment on this in a useful way.
>
> Maybe you can provide a few links on the topic.

The best I could find was:

http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm/faq.html#q_3_1

It's will give us softfloat in a standardized way, but will break binary
compatibility.

regards,

Koen
Received on Sat Jun 11 2005 - 03:51:44 EDT