<html lang="en"> <head> <title>ARC Floating Point - Using as</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using as"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.7"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="ARC_002dDependent.html#ARC_002dDependent" title="ARC-Dependent"> <link rel="prev" href="ARC-Syntax.html#ARC-Syntax" title="ARC Syntax"> <link rel="next" href="ARC-Directives.html#ARC-Directives" title="ARC Directives"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU Assembler "as". Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. man end--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family: serif; font-weight: normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <p> <a name="ARC-Floating-Point"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="ARC-Directives.html#ARC-Directives">ARC Directives</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="ARC-Syntax.html#ARC-Syntax">ARC Syntax</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="ARC_002dDependent.html#ARC_002dDependent">ARC-Dependent</a> <hr><br> </div> <h4 class="subsection">9.2.3 Floating Point</h4> <p><a name="index-floating-point_002c-ARC-_0028_0040sc_007bieee_007d_0029-546"></a><a name="index-ARC-floating-point-_0028_0040sc_007bieee_007d_0029-547"></a>The ARC core does not currently have hardware floating point support. Software floating point support is provided by <code>GCC</code> and uses <span class="sc">ieee</span> floating-point numbers. </body></html>