Re: libffi & powerpc

2007-05-16 Thread Patrick Olinet
ok, I've created PR31937 related to the libffi bug and I've also submitted a quick patch to the gcc-patches mailing list Patrick On 5/16/07, Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 15, 2007, at 2:20 AM, Patrick Olinet wrote: > Finally, I've tried it the dirty w

Re: libffi & powerpc

2007-05-15 Thread Patrick Olinet
. Any thoughts about that ? And should I report a new bug for this libffi/powerpc problem ? And thanks again to all of you for your help. Patrick On 5/14/07, Mike Stump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On May 14, 2007, at 8:46 AM, Patrick Olinet wrote: > Running with gdb, it looks like the prob

Re: libffi & powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Patrick Olinet
> I thought that fpu emulation worked by trapping cpu exceptions when a > fpu instruction is being executed and then emulating this instruction > on software level. Yes. > Isn't the mechanism implemented by the "--with-float=soft" option ? No. FPU emulation requires no special compile-time

Re: libffi & powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Patrick Olinet
> I've compiled again my cross toolchain with the "--with-float=soft" > option, hoping that it would emulate FPU instruction, but this > unfortunately doesn't help... I'm nevertheless not sure that this > option is the right one... If your entire toolchain is compiled with --with-float=soft, then

Re: libffi & powerpc

2007-05-14 Thread Patrick Olinet
#x27;m nevertheless not sure that this option is the right one... Any thoughts ? Is there a bug in libffi in that it doesn't support powerpc CPU without FPU ? Regards, Patrick On 5/8/07, Andrew Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Patrick Olinet writes: > Hi there, > > I'

libffi & powerpc

2007-05-07 Thread Patrick Olinet
compiled with the right EABI (does this question make sense??) ? Any ideas or thoughts about this problem ? Thanks in advance for your replies. Regards, Patrick Olinet