Are you saying that VFP registers are treated as multimedia registers and not
as FPU registers? If so presumablly that mean I should be using LOC_MMREG and
not LOC_FPUREG as the location for parameters and return values?
Yes.
Thank you for your help so-far, i'm gradually making progress though
there is still some way to go.
While i'm currently working on doubles (since double is the dominant
floating point type in my experiance and is also easier) at some point I
will need to support singles correctly as well and I just ran into an
issue that could pose a problem for making singles work correctly.
It seems freepascal identifies registers using a series of constants
defined in rarmcon.inc which is generated from armreg.dat however to
workarround a deficiency in the register allocator the same "register
number" was allocated to both of the single precision registers that
overlap with any given double precision register. So it seems there is
no way to identify the two seperately within the compiler. This is a
problem because to correctly implement the EABI VFP calling convention I
need to use those registers.
Any thoughts on how to get arround this?
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