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PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd"> |
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<concept id="GUID-CBC1E46A-E254-5A01-86AE-F5EB6135E3E3" xml:lang="en"><title>Vector Floating Point (VFP)</title><shortdesc>ARM provide a hardware floating point coprocessor that |
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provides floating point computation that is fully compliant with IEEE |
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Std 754-1985.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody> |
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<p> When a phone has this hardware, the base port must be configured |
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to use it. </p> |
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<p>The ARM architecture is called the ARM Vector Floating Point Architecture |
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(VFPv2), and the coprocessor is also called the <i>VFP unit</i>. </p> |
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<p>Symbian platform supports the use of VFPv2 on platforms where the |
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required hardware is present in both <i>RunFast</i> mode and in <i>IEEE-without-exceptions</i> mode. See ARM's Vector Floating-point |
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Coprocessor Technical reference Manual for more details on the coprocessor, |
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its architecture, and its execution modes. </p> |
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<p>Applications and, in a more limited sense, kernel side code can |
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use VFP in one of two ways: </p> |
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<ul> |
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<li id="GUID-D74E3541-3D8F-5338-A488-E40385D1C293"><p>indirectly through |
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the use of floating point support (helper) functions generated by |
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the compiler. </p> </li> |
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<li id="GUID-7316F251-5292-510C-9496-30C0B7A7A25C"><p>directly, either |
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through instructions generated by the compiler, or hand-written instructions |
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written in assembler. </p> </li> |
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</ul> |
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<p>An application uses the <codeph>armfpu</codeph> statement in its <filepath>.mmp</filepath> file to specify how it wants floating point to be |
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handled. By choosing to use the floating point support functions, |
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an application does not need to know how they are implemented or even |
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whether these functions make use of a VFP unit. However, if a device |
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does have a VFP unit, then the base port needs to replace the default |
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floating point support functions with VFP-enabled functions if applications |
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are to take advantage of the hardware. </p> |
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<section id="GUID-C20C78B4-62E4-403B-82F1-416539B50DD0"><title>See also</title><p><ul> |
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<li><p>Floating point support in Symbian^3 Tools Guide |
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> Building</p></li> |
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<li><p><xref href="GUID-3046453A-AB3A-5491-87A0-00F3514D4768.dita">Vector |
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Floating Point Implementation Tutorial</xref></p></li> |
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