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Floating Point Math on ARM CPUs

March 5, 2014

From time to time we get questions about floating point math on ARMCPU’s. As it turns out this is a rather advanced topic that deservessome discussion, so we recently put all of our notes and experiences intoa Wiki article that we felt was worth blogging about.To make a long story short, many users get confused about the variousGNU Compiler (gcc) options for floating point. The most commonmisconception is that ‘-mfloat-abi=softfp’ means that you are usingsoftware floatingpoint math when in fact that produces binaries thatuse hard float acceleration (as specified by the -mfp) agument butwith a function calling convention compatible with …

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