[fpc-devel] FPC for Linux-ARM

Florian Klaempfl florian at freepascal.org
Wed Jan 19 17:00:53 CET 2011


Am 19.01.2011 16:56, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 01/19/2011 12:03 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
>> Some phones have hardware floating point, the majority not.
> I'm not in a position to estimate the counts of Android devices that
> have an FPU vs those that don't, or suggest that all relevant of them have.
> 
> But AFAIK, when building the Linux Kernel for AR; chips without FPU, you
> can include an FPU simulation. With that the user software (other than
> slower execution) does not notice that there is no FPU. As this only
> costs some hundred bytes of memory, I do suppose that the Kernel for
> Android devices might be done in that ways.

No. It doesn't.



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