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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net> wrote:

> so i think we shouldn't worry about applications using hard float
> while the libc is soft float

Agreed. For ARM the assumption is you don't use fp at all in
softfloat, use the armhf ABI if you wan't real floats and have a more
recent CPU. Most of the Linux distros are now splitting into two for
ARM, hardfloat and softfloat, with the different ABI.

Justin