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Re: [openrisc] progress...



Damjan Lampret wrote:
> 
> > 3.  More work has to be done on the GCC backend.  Right now it
> >     doesn't support any form of floats (float or double).
> >
> 
> FP is not yet defined. FPU group is preparing to start working on this. I've
> mentioned FP in or1k architecture so FP will eventually be part of or1k. I
> hope to release beta arch manual soon, hopefully by the end of week (I'll
> send an alpha version to Johan and Jimmy, if anyone else is interested to
> help with architecture tell me).

I'll might try to implement floats using the libraries (soft math). 
Should
be no problem I guess.  Just use 32-bit floats and 64-bit doubles
(occupies
two gp registers).
 
> Johan, excellent work by the way !
> 
> regards, Damjan

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