Re: mac68ksf - new softfloat Macintosh port.

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On Oct 14, 2025, at 4:29 PM, Nathanial Sloss <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Now that the m68k softfloat userland libm test results are are zero failures
> (1 expected failure).
> 
> I'd like to pre-announce a new port - mac68ksf.

Nat — this is super cool, and thank you for doing this work!

I would suggest a couple of things:

1- Have we made sure that the ELF object / binaries are properly decorated with something that indicates they’re soft float-only?  If not, we should investigate that, and make sure the effort is coordinated with the toolchain folks.

2- We should make sure that hard float systems can natively exec the soft float binaries, and we should perhaps consider some sort of compat-dynamic-linker thing like is done with ARM with VFP or amd64 with 32-bit binaries / libraries.

3- Make it possible to build any hard float m68k platform as “m68ksf” “natively”.  This might make things better for package builders (I’m thinking forward to the day when perhaps we can reliably use virt68k as a “native” builder for m68k packages, and it would be nice to be able to do both).

But these are all very much nice-to-haves.  Kudos to you!  I know you’ve been working on this for quite some time!

-- thorpej