Subject: Re: More ELF stuff
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm26
Date: 02/15/2001 13:28:13
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> I don't intend to (permanently) remove FPA support from the compiler, my 
> intent was just to get something available quickly, so that when we move 
> to ELF we switch the default to the new word endianness.  Since there 
> seems to be pressure to move to ELF ASAP, I thought it important that we 
> at least discussed this issue first (the ELF transition is probably the 
> last chance we get to fix some of the current anomalies in the default 
> ABI).
> 
> We can add back support for the FPA with a bit more leisure (since we 
> currently don't support it at all).

That sounds OK to me.  When I get a chance, I'll try sticking your
suggested changes into my toolchain and seeing what happens.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>