Re: Another question

From: Ralf Meyer <ranf_at_gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 20:04:36 +0200

On 14 Jul 2002 at 22:37, Thomas wrote:

> one major problem is that the cpu used
> in the zaurus and the ipaq does not have a floating point unit in it,
> so all floating point calculations (ie 3.5 + 2.1) are emulated in
> software (they are first converted to an integer, and then added, then
> converted back, basically).

Can you elaborate on this: is this done in the Kernel or Qt/E or QPE?

Qpe (opie) seems to have some sin(), cos(), tan(), atan(), sqrt() stuff. The basic
stuff for drawing circles and ellipses and some such.
Received on Mon Jul 15 2002 - 18:05:04 EDT

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