[fpc-devel] Re: help with softfloat for arm big endian crosscompiler

[Micha Nelissen]

Terry Kemp wrote:
> Digest mode... forgive the de-threading.
> 
> I am using a Linksys NSLU2. The NSLU2 is based on an Intel XScale IXP420
> processor, clocked at 266MHz.The device has 32MB of SDRAM, 8MB of NOR
> Flash, built-in 10/100 (not yet supported in litte-endian mode), and
> dual USB 2.0 ports. The Linksys firmware, bootloader, kernel,
> proprietary ethernet drivers are big endian. There is a debian LE OS but
> I will lose the ethernet port.  

Just an idea: is it possible for your code to use fixed point 
arithmetic, thereby avoiding the need for floating point entirely ?

I'm not sure if it's possible to use an external softfloat library from 
within fpc (this seems to be your question).

Micha