[kaffe] PATCH: support for PowerPCs w/o FPU

Dalibor Topic robilad at kaffe.org
Sun Mar 7 05:09:03 PST 2004


Hallo Marius,

Marius Groeger wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> here is a patch for kaffe V1.3 to add support for PPCs without an FPU.
> I've tested it on an IBM440GP (IBM Ebony) with gcc 3.2.3 and glibc
> 2.3.2, kernel 2.4.21-pre3. The patch should also work of 8xx CPUs. I
> haven't tried the patch on kaffe 1.4, but I'm pretty confident it
> works (famous last words :-)
> 
> ChangeLog entry:
> 
> 2004-02-25  Marius Groeger <mgroeger at sysgo.com>
> 	* config/powerpc/sysdepCallMethod.h:
> 	Add support for PowerPC CPUs without hardware FPU (-msoft-float)
> 
> Comments welcome, but please copy me on standard email as I'm not
> subscribed to the kaffe mailing list.

Thanks a lot for the patch and accompanying it with a ChangeLog entry.

Since this is your first patch, before I check it in, I have to ask if 
you're tainted, i.e. have looked at Sun's sources, decompiled them, or 
signed an NDA that would prevent you from contributing.

cheers,
dalibor topic




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