I want to use some floating point variables in my code and format a string with them in. These are latitude and longitude values from a GPS which I'm then sending to a GSM modem. I'm using the gcc-arm-none-eabi toolchain with the unofficial "pure-gcc" Makefiles.
typedef struct
{
float latitude;
float longitude;
float altitude;
float accuracy;
} position_t;
memset(&at_command, 0, sizeof(at_command));
sprintf(at_command, "AT+UHTTPC=0,5,\"/d/position\",\"position.ffs\",\"d=%s&lat=%f&lng=%f\",0\r",
p_device_id, p_position->latitude, p_position->longitude);
gsm_at((uint8_t *)at_command, gsm_response);
I read somewhere that because the M0 has no floating point unit, in order to use floats I need to use a build flag to emulate them in software like so:
-mfloat-abi=soft
(See gcc.gnu.org/.../ARM-Options.html)
However, I notice my code builds and runs without this.
The docs for my libc (gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2013q4/share/doc/gcc-arm-none-eabi/html/libc/sprintf.html in your filesystem, if you use gcc-arm-none-eabi) list all format specifiers, but then says this.
Depending on how newlib was configured, not all format specifiers are supported.
I notice some other people are simply hacking their floats into two decimals and printing those independently instead, eg:
stackoverflow.com/.../using-floats-with-sprintf-in-embedded-c
That's an option, I guess, but I'm interested in avoiding it if possible.
What I'm seeing when debugging is that the float values are there (even without the -mfloat-abi=soft flag, strangely), but the output string from sprintf is missing the values.
How do I build with support for floats in sprintf?
