Re: [head tinderbox] failure on arm/arm

From: Olivier Houchard <mlfbsd_at_cognet.ci0.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:44:12 +0100
On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 11:27:42PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 12:34:34AM +0100, Olivier Houchard wrote:
> 
> > No, we're not using the mixed endian IEEE 64bits representation. We're
> > defaulting to softfloat VFP. What would be te point of switching ?
> 
> >From my limited understanding of these things (mostly observing on the
> ARM Linux lists) absolutely none. The mixed endian IEEE representation
> is a complete pain, I'm unaware of any reason why it was chosen over a
> conventional little endian representation (probably back some time in
> 1987).
> 

I thought so :)
I think FPA is used for historical reasons, because that's what some older 
arm cpus used when they had a FPU. And of course using a kernel FPE was a
great idea for linux too.

Olivier
Received on Sun Nov 12 2006 - 22:31:40 UTC

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