[GSOC] How to enable floating point? (Deb)

[Joel Sherrill]

On 06/25/2012 02:33 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> You have to set the floating point attribute in rtems_task_create().  For the
> initialization task use CONFIGURE_INIT_TASK_ATTRIBUTES.
Just to add a bit for Deb.

This is a feature of Classic API tasks. If you do not want to use FP 
operations,
then it speeds up the context switch.

For POSIX threads, the default is to enable the FPU since POSIX does not
address that.

--joel
> On 06/25/2012 03:03 AM, Xiaochen Pan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got this message when running some code:
>>
>> Unexpected trap ( 4) at address 0x020051EC
>> fp disabled
>>
>>
>> It says floating point being disabled. Can I enable floating point operation?
>> Does this property apply to all BSPs? What I can do about it?
>>
>> regards,
>> xiaochen
>>
>>
>>
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