Soft Float for PC386

[Ralf Corsepius]

Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> 
> I have noticed during the configure stage of the script, the following is shown (this is from the ts_386 so
> it should be soft float)
> running /bin/sh ../../../../../RTEMS4.5.0ss/c/src/make/configure  --host=i386-rt
> ems --build=i586-pc-linux-gnu --target=i386-rtems --prefix=/opt/rtems --disable-
> hwapi --enable-multiprocessing --enable-cxx --enable-rdbg --disable-tests --disa
> ble-networking --enable-posix --disable-itron --with-target-subdir=i386-rtems --
> libdir=/opt/rtems/i386-rtems/lib --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=../../.
> 
> does libdir=/opt/rtems/i386-rtems/lib mean that it would be linking with the libraries in that directory
> instead of the soft-float directory? 
No. libdir is used by autoconf and automake to specify the path to
the directory where libraries shall be install during "make
install". 
Currently is not used at all by RTEMS,and therefore should not have
any influence at all.

> Shouldn't that be /opt/rtems/i386-rtems/lib/soft-float ??
No. libdir can vary inside of the build tree and should better not
be passed manually to the toplevel configure script at all.

However, there should neither be a need to set it, nor should having
set it have any effect on building RTEMS. (Warning: Future versions
of RTEMS probably will be using it.)

> I copied the files from the soft-float directory to that directory but still had the same fault, i.e.
> exception 7.
>  Is there anywhere else I should be looking 
You could try to isolate the location of the offending FPU-call
(find the caller, eg. by debugging paranoia.exe, disassembly,
linker-map analysis).

> or am I off the track completely??
:)

> 
> angelo wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible that the wrong libraries are being linked.
You might want to add -v to the linker invocation in your BSP's
make-exe (make/custom/<BSP>.cfg) and try to analyse the what it
reports for linking paranoia.exe.

Ralf

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