Re: [patches] eglibc builds and tests on mpc8540

[Steven Munroe <munroesj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Clemens Koller wrote:
> Hello, Steven and Jim!
>
> I've spent some time to check out several of the patches you both
> mentioned in the last mails.
> As far as I understood the code, a lot of them went into gcc-4.2.0,
> so it seems to me as the soft-fp support is already there and should
> be working.
>
OK
>
>
> --without-fp
> Does this switch enable soft-fp on PowerPC automagically?
>
> --with-float=soft
> --with-float=softfp
>
No idea. My hardware always has float so I never needed this option.

You need to look at the instruction that generated the sigill and work
from there.