Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!bu-cs!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu!bob From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc Subject: -mswitch - any plans? Message-ID: <22976@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 29 Sep 88 19:52:20 GMT Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer & Information Science Lines: 18 Are there any thoughts toward adding floating point support to gcc that would be switchable at run time between -m68881 and -msoft-float? It would eliminate some compile-time gymnastics. Here's an excerpt from Sun's cc(1), describing a similar option: -fswitch Run-time-switched floating-point calls. The compiled object code is linked at runtime to routines that support one of the above types of floating point code. [-f68881, -ffpa, -fsky, -fsoft] This was the default in previous releases. Only for use with programs that are floating-point intensive, and must be portable to machines with various floating-point hardware options. -=- Zippy sez, --Bob Our father who art in heaven.. I sincerely pray that SOMEBODY at this table will PAY for my SHREDDED WHAT and ENGLISH MUFFIN.. and also leave a GENEROUS TIP...