Subject: Re: borken state of quad/soft float on sparc64
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: James Chacon <jchacon@genuity.net>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 02/04/2002 16:31:39
build.sh -t builds lint1 with your already installed gcc.

Is that (your local one) egcs (i.e. the -1.5 version) or gcc 2.95.3? If it's 
the latter thats your problem since it means your host compiler has library 
requirements that can't be currently met by your system libraries.

James

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>On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, James Chacon wrote:
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>> Did you upgrade your native toolchain already? If so you'll need to bootstrap
>> a new one (with supprting libc routines) or revert to an older working one.
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>Did something happen in the last few minutes? The routines to support
>gcc's use of floatx80 on m68k don't seem to exist in my sources (yet,
>I think I see where to add them now).
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>> At this point it sounds like you have a divergent install of libs vs. compiler
>> and nothing will easily fix that wihtout syncing them up. build.sh makes a
>> large assumption that the host tools can compile code without errors.
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>I don't understand. What do I need to revert so that "gcc" goes back
>to not using floatx80 types? And how will that help, in the long run,
>if there is no floatx80 support in libc?
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>> >On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, James Chacon wrote:
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>> >> These sounds like generic gcc support routines that should be in the general
>> >> library.
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>> >> See libc/arch/m68k/gen for the others already in there.
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>> >I see. That looks do-able.
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>> >> >mac68k-new-toolchain has a similiar problem building "lint1", except
>> >> >that the missing symbols are for extended double precision conversions,
>> >> >rather than quad conversions (__fixunsxfdi, __floatdixf, __fixxfdi).
>> >> >This breaks the tools build. Curiously enough, a 1.5.1/i386 hosted
>> >> >build only calls on __fixunsxfdi, which it finds it in it's own libc
>> >> >fine (though I sure don't see where it's coming from).
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>> >> >There's code already in libc/softfloat/softfloat.c for the last two
>> >> >conversions, int64_to_floatx80() and
>> >> >floatx80_to_int64_round_to_zero(), they're just not respected by
>> >> >"softloat-for-gcc.h".
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>> >What about "./build.sh -t"? We don't want to add libc to the
>> >toolchain, do we? Is there an easy way to make gcc compile "lint1"
>> >without resorting to floatx80?
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