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@jimmo jimmo commented Oct 17, 2022

Prevents double-precision floats being enabled on 32-bit architectures where they will not fit into the mp_obj_t encoding.

Also reverts the Portenta board to the default representation as it uses double-precision floats.
@iabdalkader -- I'm not sure why the Portenta was set to OBJ_REPR_C, assuming to avoid heap-allocation of floats. If you want to keep that I guess we could switch the Portenta to use single-precision float instead?

Prevents double-precision floats being enabled on 32-bit architectures
where they will not fit into the mp_obj_t encoding.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
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I'm not sure why the Portenta was set to OBJ_REPR_C, assuming to avoid heap-allocation of floats

Yes, there's a longer discussion here: #8547 (comment)

We don't need double precision, but we do need REPR_C. Can you please instead set it to single precision ?

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Can you please instead set it to single precision ?

Actually I'm sending a PR to update the board config, will set it to single.

Using repr C is incompatible with double-precision floats on 32-bit arch.

Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
@jimmo jimmo force-pushed the repr-c-float-impl branch from 86fc52e to 83f3517 Compare October 17, 2022 13:42
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jimmo commented Oct 17, 2022

OK sure thing. I've updated the branch, but can drop the commit later in the rebase if necessary.

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It's fixed here too along with misc small fixes #9657

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@dpgeorge Could you please merge this, because it includes a critical fix for Portenta board.

@dpgeorge dpgeorge added port-stm32 py-core Relates to py/ directory in source labels Oct 25, 2022
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Thanks, these patches look good. Merged in b161abc and 5ee1cb2

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