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Re: Warnings on sparc build

Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:

> Please don't name the sysdeps subdirectory for powerpc
> 'soft-fp'.  Those files are used for powerpc targets both with and
> without an FPU; 'soft-fp' will be confused with the GCC -msoft-float
> option which means "compile for a CPU with no FPU".

You named the whole package soft-fp.  I don't see a problem with this
name.  soft-float reads very different from soft-fp and people who
have to care have to know enough about the architecture to know that
even with hardware FP support you need soft-fp.

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