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NEON vdiv.f32 syntax

Carl van Heezik
Note: This was originally posted on 17th April 2012 at http://forums.arm.com

I am (re)coding a 3D math library with inline NEON assembly for iOS using the Apple LLVM compiler 3.1.

I get an error message on the following instruction:

[color="#000000"]    "vdiv.f32 q0, q1, q2 \n\t" [/color]

VFP single or double precision register expected -- `vdiv.f32 q0,q1,q2'

According to the 'Assembler Reference' page 4-76  you should specify a single precision register. The following code works:

[color="#000000"]    "vdiv.f32 s0, s4,  s8 \n\t" [/color]
"vdiv.f32 s1, s5,  s9 \n\t"
"vdiv.f32 s2, s6, s10 \n\t"

I am confused because now the divide is not computed in parallel, which was the reason to use inline assembly.

Also the following instructions work as expected:

[color="#000000"]    // component wise add[/color]
[color="#000000"]    "vadd.f32 q0, q1, q2 \n\t" [/color]

[color="#008311"] // component wise subtract
[color="#000000"]    "vsub.f32 q0, q1, q2 \n\t" [/color]

[color="#008311"] // component wise multiply
[color="#000000"]    "vmul.f32 q0, q1, q2 \n\t" [/color][/color][/color]
[color="#000000"]
[color="#ce2f24"][color="#000000"]Why do I get an error message on the vdiv and not on the vadd, vsub and vmul? Is this a compiler error?[/color]




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  • Note: This was originally posted on 17th April 2012 at http://forums.arm.com


    Did you had a Acorn Archimedes ?



    No I used to program microcontrollers in assembly to control all kinds of machines. Safety software for boilers etc.  Those little guys with a minimal amount of ROM / RAM. To clean the program memory you had to give them a UV sunbath. I those days you had to program you own 16 bit multiply and divide etc. I did a good job because they still manufacture thousands of boilers with the majority of the code 15 years old.

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  • Note: This was originally posted on 17th April 2012 at http://forums.arm.com


    Did you had a Acorn Archimedes ?



    No I used to program microcontrollers in assembly to control all kinds of machines. Safety software for boilers etc.  Those little guys with a minimal amount of ROM / RAM. To clean the program memory you had to give them a UV sunbath. I those days you had to program you own 16 bit multiply and divide etc. I did a good job because they still manufacture thousands of boilers with the majority of the code 15 years old.

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