Floating point/math support implementation

Kostis Anagnostopoulos ankostis at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 11:29:27 CEST 2008


On Wed 17 Sep 2008 00:57:15 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:17:52 +0200 "Anton Persson" <don.juanton at gmail.com>
>
> babbled:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a few questions about the math support. I've noticed that
> > math functions such as sin() are very slow on the OpenMoko. How
> > is the math support implemented? Are all floating point operations
> > implemented in software, or is there hardware support for float
> > multiplication, and trigonometric functions?
>
> no fpu. so no hardware. software only. avoid floating point math where you
> can.

Would it be thinkable to use the OpenRISC processors embedded into Glamo chip?




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