GCC 3.4.0 and soft-float

[TomSoniq]

Hi all,


I'm using gcc 3.4.0 as part of the good old amidevcpp package to cross-compile 68k code under MS Windows.


I've been trying to build non-FPU code but so far without success.


Here's my very small test program:

int main(void) {
    float a,b,c;
    a=4;
    b=2.5;
    c=a/b;
    return 0;
}

When I compile this using

m68k-amigaos-gcc -noixemul -msoft-float -o FloatTest FloatTest.c

then I instantly get the infamous #8000000B software failure on a non-FPU-system. Even adding -m68000 doesn't help.


Am I doing something wrong? Does this build of GCC support compiling code for FPU emulation at all?


Here's its version info:

Reading specs from /usr/bin/../lib/gcc/m68k-amigaos/3.4.0/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.4.0/configure --prefix=/usr/local/amiga --target=m68k-amigaos --enable-languages=c,c++,objc --enable-haifa --enable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-shared --disable-libstdcxx-pch
Thread model: single
gcc version 3.4.0

Any help appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom

[jotd]

can't you switch to Bebbo's gcc 6 ? it's supported and works good. And I'm pretty sure that it supports floating point AND amidevcpp as well. Plus it's cygwin-free and cygin is crap so all for the best.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=85474&page=52

[jeff b00toNic]

Well, I was able to compile your code on GCC 3.4.0 emulated in WinUAE
without guru, so it could be that very build.

As jotd already suggested Bebbo's gcc is very good!

[TomSoniq]

Wow thanks! This looks very promising. I gave it a quick try. At the moment I get MuForce hits whenever I fopen() a file and then fseek() in it or rewind() it. I still need to figure out why. Whether it's a bug in the supplied link libraries or something I'm doing wrong.
I also need to find out why my test, when clearly compiled for mathieeesingbas.library, still crashes on my non-FPU WinUAE setup.

[TomSoniq]

Ah, great, someone else noticed the lseek() bug as well, reported it, and it got fixed immediately!
https://github.com/bebbo/amiga-gcc/issues/152
Phantastic. Now switching the AmigaAMP3 68k build to gcc 6.5