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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2011 11:46:26 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r216977 - in head/libexec/rtld-elf: amd64 i386
Message-ID:  <201101051146.26723.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D24888B.50305@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201101042051.p04KpSGk054564@svn.freebsd.org> <4D248540.3030602@freebsd.org> <4D24888B.50305@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wednesday, January 05, 2011 10:04:43 am Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2011-01-05 15:50, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> > You would also want this to be cross-platform, in which case it's more
> > than floating point. E.g. on powerpc, you also want to disable both FP
> > and vector extensions, which use separate sets of instructions and
> > registers.
> 
> Yeah, but in any case, hacking the compiler itself is not the proper way
> to achieve this goal, IMHO.  It should go into sys.mk, or more
> appropriately bsd.cpu.mk.  I'll make a crude diff for this tonight.

I think this is a workaround for a deficiency in the compiler, and one we are
probably stuck with.  But it sure would be nice to have in the compiler.

-- 
John Baldwin



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