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by mrlonglong 537 days ago
I'm annoyed they didn't bother to add floating point maths to the RISC-V cores. Its useless and that E9 bug is definitely an issue.
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brucehoult 537 days ago
Most microcontrollers sold don't have hardware floating point, but they seem to be useful. I'd bet the Cortex M0 and M3 vastly outsell the M4F.

The RP2040 didn't have floating point. It is/was popular.

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janice1999 537 days ago
It's annoying but makes sense for a simple state machine / sequencer core.
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