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7 years ago

How to use hard "Float ABI" ?

By default, the DS-5 GCC compiler sets the GCC compiler and assembler to use "Float ABI" of "softfp". Since this generates very slow floating point code (about 10 times slower than Zynq), I tried set...
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7 years ago

I managed to change to ARM C Compiler 5 and it does in fact seem to use hardware floating point. It sets "Floating-point PCS" to "Hardware" and "--apcs=/hardfp".

I'm having trouble getting the FreeRTOS Cyclone V port to wort with it though.