Re: How can I link the kernel with libgcc ?

[Robert Hancock]

Carlos Munoz wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing an audio driver and the hardware requires floating point 
> arithmetic.  When I build the kernel I get the following errors at link 
> time:

Floating point + kernel = no no. If the hardware requires floating point 
manipulations this should go in userspace.

> These symbols are coming from gcc. What I would like to do is link the 
> kernel with libgcc to solve this errors. I'm looking at the kernel 
> makefiles and it doesn't seem obvious to me how to do it. Does anyone 
> know how I can link the kernel with libgcc, or point me in the right 
> direction ?

This is almost certainly a bad idea. The functions inside libgcc are not 
designed to run inside a kernel.

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