From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch/rfc,rfa:ppc64] Add osabi wildcard support
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031024005219.GA17411@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F987479.7020904@redhat.com>
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:38:17PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >The table is almost certainly not complete, but that's not the problem
> >here. The e500 is compatible with ppc - the e500 can run ppc code.
> >Vice versa is not necessarily true. There's a FIXME in osabi.c saying
> >that we should look for the most compatible architecture:
>
> FYI, the e500 doesn't have the PPC's FPU so it can't (well ignoring
> emulation) run PPC floating-point code.
Neither can half of the other PPCs that Linux runs on - the 8xx and 4xx
lines (well, most of the existing 4xx line, not all of it) don't have
an FPU either.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-24 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-23 23:25 Andrew Cagney
2003-10-23 23:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-24 0:38 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-24 0:52 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-10-24 14:47 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-24 14:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-24 14:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-28 21:59 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-28 23:56 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-10-29 3:33 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-29 19:30 ` Andrew Cagney
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