[fpc-devel] freepascal on armhf again

[peter green]

>
> Maybe this will help you: 
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_2.6.0#Support_for_VFPv2_and_VFPv3 
>
>
> Thus additionially defining -Cparmv6 might allow the build to be 
> completed.
It didn't.

I did find the issue though, it seems freepascal wasn't passing a fpu 
type parameter to the assembler for any case except softfloat.

I fixed that but in the process discovered that freepascals vfpv3 
support is the "d32" version of vfpv3 (yes arm floating point is a mess) 
so I decided to try and add a vfpv3_d16 "fpu type". However when I did 
so the compiler started outputting a rfs and wfs instruction when 
compling the system unit which the assembler didn't like. I eventually 
tracked that down to inline assembler in the RTL. Maybe we should add a 
FPU_VFP define that is defined for all VFP variants so we don't have to 
mess with the ifdefs  in the RTL every time we want to add a variant of 
VFP (afaict there are a lot of VFP variants).

In the process of working on that I discovered another problem, 
according to a comment in the source freepascal's register allocation 
does not currently understand the concept of two single precision 
registers that overlap with one double precision register, this will 
make correctly implementing the "eabi vfp hardfloat" calling convention 
difficult but i'm going to get passing doubles working before I worry 
about the complications involved in passing singles (and even worse 
passing a mixture of singles and doubles).

I've attatched the diff of what i've done so far.

P.S. (mostly as a note to self) i'm currently using the following 
commands to build

make compiler_cycle 'OPT=-dFPC_ARMEL' 2>&1 | tee ../buildlog
cp compiler/ppcarm /
make compiler_cycle PP=/ppcarm 'OPT=-dFPC_ARMEL -CfVFPV3_D16 -CpARMV7' 
2>&1 | tee ../buildlog

Next step will be to modify the code in cpupara.pas to actually start 
passing values in vfp registers.
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