Fw: soft float and binary compatibility

["TAKEMURA Shin" <takemura@netbsd.org>]

user land の softfloat オプションをとって、hardfloat にする件ですが、
ここ（port-hpcmips-jp）では異論はないようなので、port-hpcmips と
port-mips に投げました。

1 週間ぐらい反論がなければ、あとは黙って修正すればいいでしょう。

実際の修正作業をお願いしてもいいですか？＞篠原さん

----- Original Message -----
From: "TAKEMURA Shin" <takemura@netbsd.org>
To: "NetBSD port-hpcmips" <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
Cc: "NetBSD port-mips" <port-mips@netbsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 3:43 PM
Subject: soft float and binary compatibility


> Hi,
>
> I want to delete SOFTFLOAT option to get compatibility with pmax and
> arc.
>
> Currentry, hpcmips's user-land binaries are compiled with SOFTFLOAT
> option. SOFTFLOAT binaries are possibly a little faster than binaryies
> with kernel floating point emulation (HARDFLOAT). But it lacks binary
> compatibility with other mips little endian platforms. Because the
register
> usage of function calling is compleately different between SOFTFLAT and
> HARDFLOAT, dinamic linking liblaries will lose. And I feel that you can
> scarely profit by the performance advantage.
>
> Any objection ?
>
> Takemura