[U-Boot] [RFC][PATCH] ARMV7: Patch to fix hard float build issues

[Alexander Holler]

Am 19.02.2011 15:27, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> Le 19/02/2011 15:06, Alexander Holler a écrit :
>> Am 19.02.2011 14:51, schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
>>> Le 19/02/2011 14:25, Måns Rullgård a écrit :
>>>
>>>>> So whats the reasoning to use -msoft-float as it is currently done? To
>>>>> confuse people? ;)

>> I don't see any reason to explicitly set an option for something which
>> isn't used, but I know of many reasons to avoid such. ;)
>
> At least there is one reason for having -msoft-float even though no
> floating point should be used in U-Boot : it helps catching cases where
> some code in U-Boot tries to use hard float. :)
>
> Think of it as choosing the least dangerous of Charybdis and Scylla,
> while trying our best not to get near any of the two.

Hmm, I could argue exactly the oposite.
When using -msoft-float you won't find (unwanted) usages of float on any 
platform. To follow your argument, hard-floats should be enabled (if 
possible), so the usage of floats would lead to an error (at least on 
platforms without support for that). ;)

Regards,

Alexander