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Subject: clang -msoft-float for powerpc (ppc32) is very new;
 powerpc64 (ppc64) does not have it yet
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When -msoft-float was added for ppc32 (powerpc) the error message for it =
not being supported for ppc64 was added.

Strahinja Petrovic added the support and the review materials had =
exchanges about ppc64, such as ( http://reviews.llvm.org/D13351 ):

> Remove this FIXME. It is not clear this will ever be supported (is =
there actually ppc64 hardware without an FP unit)?

> I'm planning to support soft float for ppc64. At this moment I don't =
know name of ppc64 hardware without FP unit. I know that gcc supports =
soft float for ppc64.

The review was closed 2015-Dec-15. The commit for powerpc (non-64) ( =
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL255515 ) was on 2015-Dec-14.

=3D=3D=3D
Mark Millard
markmi at dsl-only.net