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2.7 VFPv3 architecture<br />

Programmers Model<br />

The VFP architecture v3 is an enhancement to the VFP architecture v2. The main changes are:<br />

• the doubling of the number of double-precision registers to 32<br />

• the introduction of an instruction that places a floating-point constant in a register, and<br />

instructions that perform conversions between fixed-point and floating-point numbers<br />

• the introduction of VFP architecture v3 variant, that does not trap floating-point<br />

exceptions.<br />

VFPv3 is backward compatible with VFPv2 except for the capability of trapping floating-point<br />

exceptions.<br />

See the <strong>ARM</strong> Architecture <strong>Reference</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> for information on the VFPv3 architecture.<br />

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