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DEC Alpha Options
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These `-m' options are defined for the DEC Alpha implementations:
`-mno-soft-float'
`-msoft-float'
Use (do not use) the hardware floating-point instructions for
floating-point operations. When `-msoft-float' is specified,
functions in `libgcc1.c' will be used to perform floating-point
operations. Unless they are replaced by routines that emulate the
floating-point operations, or compiled in such a way as to call
such emulations routines, these routines will issue floating-point
operations. If you are compiling for an Alpha without
floating-point operations, you must ensure that the library is
built so as not to call them.
Note that Alpha implementations without floating-point operations
are required to have floating-point registers.
`-mfp-reg'
`-mno-fp-regs'
Generate code that uses (does not use) the floating-point register
set. `-mno-fp-regs' implies `-msoft-float'. If the floating-point
register set is not used, floating point operands are passed in
integer registers as if they were integers and floating-point
results are passed in $0 instead of $f0. This is a non-standard
calling sequence, so any function with a floating-point argument
or return value called by code compiled with `-mno-fp-regs' must
also be compiled with that option.
A typical use of this option is building a kernel that does not
use, and hence need not save and restore, any floating-point
registers.