AW: [Mono-dev] arm fp instructions

[FALE(Leopold Faschalek)]

> von Paolo Molaro
> 
> On 03/15/06 FALE(Leopold Faschalek) wrote:
> > My tests with mono 1.1.9 failed because mono generated vfp 
> > instructions and linux has only an emulator for the older fpe 
> > standard.
> 
> Mono never generated vfp instructions. The FP model currently 
> implemented is called FPA.
> 
> > Is there some information about the fp code generation and possible 
> > options for the generated code (fpe or vfp or soft-fp)
> 
> Currently only the FPA model is supported.
> We'd like to eventually implement support for VFP and 
> soft-float, but we haven't scheduled it yet. I can offer 
> assistance is someone wants to contribute, though.
> 
> lupus
> 

Thank you, I have checked with the mono 1.1.13 package for nokia770
and the floating point calculations are ok.

Greetings Leopold