ARM floating point ARM7tdmi

Richard Earnshaw rearnsha@arm.com
Mon Apr 8 10:12:00 GMT 2002


> Hi all,
> 
> I'm using a arm-elf-gcc build of the gnu compiler: gcc
> 3.0.4 and newlib10,
> Is there anything special required to initialize the
> floating point emulator.
> 
> I seem to be able to do floating point math on local
> variables but I can't pass floats to a different
> function.
> Can anyone point me in the right direction.
> Thanks
> Richard Slaughter
> 

Are you really sure you want to use the FPE rather than the soft-float 
routines.  The FPE is very slow, and not recommended for new designs.  So 
unless you expect code to eventually run on the FPA, I wouldn't recommend 
it.

R.


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