is there trivial way to change floats to fixed points?

[Visti Andresen]

On Tue, 12 May 2009 13:28:06 +0300
Aapo Rantalainen <aapo.rantalainen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there trivial (=automatic) way to change floating point arithmetic
> to fixed point arithmetic?

Not that I'm aware of...
Floating and fixed point numbers have different limitations and
therefor not all software would work with fixed point.

But it "should be possible" (not trivial) to extend gcc to allow
faking floats using fixed point?

> 
> I have some compilable and runnable code, but it is too slow on
> Freerunner and I think it is because of used floats. It runs on Nokia
> Internet Tablet very well and I think it has almost same specks than
> Freerunner expect it has FPU.
> 
> So is there some other way than reading and learning whole source code
> and make changes? (Maybe some compile options to use fixed points
> instead of floats?)
> 
> -Aapo Rantalainen
> 
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Visti Andresen