[uClibc] 386 floating point

david stevenson david at avoncliff.com
Tue Sep 30 18:47:32 UTC 2003


> > I am not gettting very far sorting out what I should do to get uClibc
> > built for the cs400. (a 486 clone with no hardware floating point).
> >
> > As I understand I should complile uClibc with gcc option -msoft-float,
> > but I then get the error
> > Symbol __adddf3 needed by libc.a but not found in libgcc.a  (and many
> > others)
>
> I believe you have to build gcc with soft-float support, since
> that is not the default on i386.

Eric
Do you know how to do this?
I am now using Thomas's suggestion of using kernel support, but I had tried to 
build gcc with soft-float without finding the magic. 2.95.3 has a file 
softfloat.c but I could not find the right way to include it.

David




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