[fpc-devel] Soft Float for AVR

[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 18.07.2018 um 14:33 schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis via fpc-devel:
> Hi,
> 
>   AFAIU, the AVR architecture doesn't support floating point variables.
> 
>   I want to ask if soft float support ( like ARM ) is planned. Does anyone work or plan to work on this ?

Problem is: the compiler throws internal errors on the softfpu unit. The code is really complex (a lot of 64 bit
operations) and the register allocator cannot cope with this.