[fpc-devel] FPC for Linux-ARM

[Henry Vermaak]

On 19/01/11 16:02, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Michael Schnell<mschnell at lumino.de>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Then the manufacturers are not using this linux kernel option, because
> software which uses the FPU will crash at startup in the devices
> without a FPU. And I am 100% sure because I tested several devices and
> several source technologies (FPC apps and also JITed Javascript).

How did it crash?  Your crashes may be due to the fact that fpc passes 
floats incorrectly in function calls, too.

Henry