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by comex 5302 days ago
As far as I can tell (other comments suggest this is being misunderstood), the change is not about switching from softfp to hardfp-- the FPU was always being used-- but switching from an ABI designed for softfp, where float arguments to function calls are passed in general purpose registers, to one designed for hardfp, where they're passed in the VFP registers.

Interestingly, iOS uses the "old" ABI:

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Xcode/C...