My question is related to the embOS and IAR C/C++ for ARM compiler and their handling of the floating-point arithmetic emulation on a CPU without floating point coprocessor.
My application uses Cortex-M3 (NXP LPC1788 ) so I have no VFP. I use Embedded Artists eval board for now.
Should I be concerned with multitasking affecting somehow the floating point emulation library?
Are there any global variables used by the f-p library and if so, where are they stored?
I have a previous experience using floating-point emulator library under uCOS by Micrium with Borland and Paradigm C/C++ compilers based on the project using an older clone of 80186 microcontroller and we had to solve a problem with floating point library being not os-aware and
putting some global variables at the end of the main code stack. FP library was initialized once at the program start, before the os was started. Then, after the multitasking was running and the task wanted to use floating point library, the code was not able to access previously stored f-p library variables because the stack was switched from main code task to the private task stack…
Will we have to deal with similar issues with embOS and IAR compilers for ARM?
I checked the documents available in IAR Workbench but could not find any info related to floating point library reentrancy...
Thanks!
My application uses Cortex-M3 (NXP LPC1788 ) so I have no VFP. I use Embedded Artists eval board for now.
Should I be concerned with multitasking affecting somehow the floating point emulation library?
Are there any global variables used by the f-p library and if so, where are they stored?
I have a previous experience using floating-point emulator library under uCOS by Micrium with Borland and Paradigm C/C++ compilers based on the project using an older clone of 80186 microcontroller and we had to solve a problem with floating point library being not os-aware and
putting some global variables at the end of the main code stack. FP library was initialized once at the program start, before the os was started. Then, after the multitasking was running and the task wanted to use floating point library, the code was not able to access previously stored f-p library variables because the stack was switched from main code task to the private task stack…
Will we have to deal with similar issues with embOS and IAR compilers for ARM?
I checked the documents available in IAR Workbench but could not find any info related to floating point library reentrancy...
Thanks!