Re: [head tinderbox] failure on arm/arm

From: Nicholas Clark <nick_at_ccl4.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 23:27:42 +0000
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).

Nicholas Clark
Received on Sun Nov 12 2006 - 22:28:06 UTC

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