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From: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing RISC-V
Date: Sat, 18 May 2019 19:34:41
Message-Id: 20190518223430.64d3be1c07ad9398122a78b6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Announcing RISC-V by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 18 May 2019 20:47:28 +0200 Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2019-05-03 at 23:34 +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
3 > > * We will initially add two profiles to profile.desc:
4 > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc/lp64d (non-multilib, 64bit hardfloat)
5 > > default/linux/riscv/17.0/rv64gc (multilib lp64d/lp64, i.e. hard/softfloat)
6 >
7 > I still don't understand the purpose of this multilib. If you have
8 > a hardfloat CPU, why would you ever build some of the software
9 > softfloat?
10
11 One may have binary-only software which requires softfloat
12 dependencies.
13
14 Best regards,
15 Andrew Savchenko

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