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Re: Documentation on the RoboRIO HAL

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Originally Posted by Thad House View Post
One thing I remember reading is that the OS on the RoboRIO is softFP. Is that true? Seems like that would cause performance issues, even with the current languages.
yes, but softfp != soft

softfp uses the hardware floating point unit, but is conformant with the software floating point abi (soft). While softfp and hard both use the hardware floating point unit, they are not abi compatible.
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