fix detection of arm hardfloat

it turns out that __SOFTFP__ does not indicate the ABI in use but
rather that fpu instructions are not to be used at all. this is
specified in ARM's documentation so I'm unclear on how I previously
got the wrong idea. unfortunately, this resulted in the 0.9.12 release
producing a dynamic linker with the wrong name. fortunately, there do
not yet seem to be any public toolchain builds using the wrong name.

the __ARM_PCS_VFP macro does not seem to be official from ARM, and in
fact it was missing from the very earliest gcc versions (around 4.5.x)
that added -mfloat-abi=hard. it would be possible on such versions to
perform some ugly linker-based tests instead in hopes that the linker
will reject ABI-mismatching object files, if there is demand for
supporting such versions. I would probably prefer to document which
versions are broken and warn users to manually add -D__ARM_PCS_VFP if
using such a version.

there's definitely an argument to be made that the fenv macros should
be exposed even in -mfloat-abi=softfp mode. for now, I have chosen not
to expose them in this case, since the math library will not
necessarily have the capability to raise exceptions (it depends on the
CFLAGS used to compile it), and since exceptions are officially
excluded from the ARM EABI, which the plain "arm" arch aims to
follow.

diff --git a/arch/arm/bits/fenv.h b/arch/arm/bits/fenv.h
index 1d990221d60fcd4a75db8282bf7446b6471c6221..d85fc86d79476d160ce55024ced9eb5ea3324e78 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm/bits/fenv.h
+++ b/arch/arm/bits/fenv.h
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#ifdef __SOFTFP__
+#ifndef __ARM_PCS_VFP
 #define FE_ALL_EXCEPT 0
 #define FE_TONEAREST  0
 #else

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 7aae7d4d46c387717feccbef8a10773425c6b802..949fb03d60ffdf77a0e4abba4fda620a892f9b92 100755 (executable)
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ t="$CFLAGS_C99FSE $CPPFLAGS $CFLAGS_AUTO $CFLAGS"
 
 if test "$ARCH" = "arm" ; then
 trycppif __ARMEB__ "$t" && SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}eb
-trycppif __SOFTFP__ "$t" || SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}hf
+trycppif __ARM_PCS_VFP "$t" && SUBARCH=${SUBARCH}hf
 fi
 
 test "$ARCH" = "mips" && trycppif "_MIPSEL || __MIPSEL || __MIPSEL__" "$t" \