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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Am I using hardware floating? (CodeBench)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:28:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130923092811.0ac82091@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130922151840.GA2804@zuhnb712>

Dear Woody Wu,

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 23:18:40 +0800, Woody Wu wrote:

> Okay, understand.  For software floating, I know there are two ways,
> one is to generating an interrupt every time a floating instruction is
> executed, which is very slow. And, another way is let the compiler to
> convert all floating calculation to a function call which implemented
> in a floating library, this method is a little faster than the
> former. My compiler is CodeBench from BR, does it have this feature
> and has it already enabled?  Thank you very much.

Yes, the Sourcery CodeBench toolchain for ARM uses soft-float for its
ARMv5 multilib variant, which gets used if you select the arm926
processor type in Buildroot.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-21 15:24 [Buildroot] Am I using hardware floating? (CodeBench) Woody Wu
2013-09-22  8:37 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-09-22 15:18   ` Woody Wu
2013-09-23  7:28     ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-09-24 12:48       ` Woody Wu

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