Re: Type fixed piont

If I want to take the code faster, without emulation of floating point, what
kind of type can I use?

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My english is bad...if I made some mistaches you'll tell me please!

"steve" <bungalow_steve@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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SDV wrote:
Hi,
I'm working with an ADSP-BF533 which uses fixed point arithmetic.
Have I, for this reason, some limitation with type declaration (like
double,
float, ...)?

No, no limitation, if you use float types the complier will just
generate software emulated floating point code using fixed point math,
the code will be a lot slower then if you had a processor with hardware
floating point, and the code will take up more memory, but it will work
fine otherwise.

steve



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