Re: hf/sf [Was Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/misc/raspberrypi-userland]

[Justin Cormack <justin%specialbusservice.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Michael van Elst 
<mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost> wrote:
> matt%3am-software.com@localhost (Matt Thomas) writes:
>
>>Exactly.  with hf, floating point values are passed in floating point
>>registers.  That can not be hidden via a library (this works on x86
>>since the stack has all the arguments).
>
> It could be hidden by emulating the floating point hardware.

Thats not sane. The slowdown would be enormous. You are emulating
registers as well as operations.

Justin