Subject: Re: Floating Point under NetBSD
To: Andrew Coles <andrew@andycole.force9.co.uk>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 06/12/1999 10:52:07
Andrew Coles wrote:
> 
> I've been looking at some code produced by egcs (with -S) and it doesn't
> contain FP opcodes, rather it calls functions to perform the FP maths
> operations. Is that because egcs uses it's own softfloat library or is it
> because the FP support code is not implemented by emulating the ARM FP
> opcodes?

The emulation is implemented for emulating FP opcodes, it's the the
performance is bad. Instead, it branches into functions stored in the C
library instead.

	Neil