Re: [BK+PATCH] remove __constant_memcpy

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:04:44 +0000


On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:02:43AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 17 Apr 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
> > it can do that ANYWAY for all kinds of things.
> > We really should ask the gcc folks to add a
> > -fdontyoudareusefloatingpoint flag (well different name probably) to
> > make sure it never ever will generate FP code. (would also help catch
> > abusers of FP code in the kernel as a bonus ;)
>
> -msoft-float?

that is a decent start but has a different effect, eg it doesnt' actually
forbid gcc from generatic fpu code, just tells it to use emu lib functions
for it .
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