Christian Heimes lists at cheimes.de
Sat Feb 2 17:15:31 CET 2008

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Mark Dickinson wrote:
> Thank you:  a very useful thread.  From what little information I'm turning
> up on Google, it looks as though most of these devices---if they support
> floating-point at all---provide some reasonably close approximation to IEEE
> 754 floats (possibly emulated in software).


Some of the devices have a (slow) floating point engine. But it's
sometimes disabled to safe power or userland software can't sometimes
access the FPU. Some devices can (ab)use the DSP or GPU/OpenGL engine to
speed up floating point ops.

Christian

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