Anyone ?
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Lior Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure if this old patch for PHP in Debian for ARM is still > relevant for us. It was added in 2005, but much have changed since then. > > I've asked someone who is doing ARM optimization of the PHP code, and his > answer is bellow. Would be happy to here you're opinion about this. > > The patch: > > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-php/php.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/044-strtod_arm_fix.patch;h=729f0a11cc688c92ec545d3100fae9eb512376d9;hb=HEAD > > Current upstream file (if needed): > > http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob;f=Zend/zend_strtod.c;h=d6e5ccf9604a79c19b2c0d3ba3ee6d8a8b377ab7;hb=HEAD > > TIA, > > Kaplan > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:06 PM > Subject: Re: Debian patch for PHP on ARM > To: Lior Kaplan <[email protected]> > > > On 24 September 2013 17:03, Lior Kaplan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not an ARM porter, and I don't find any info about this patch other > > than: > >> > >> Add 044-strtod_arm_fix.patch to fix the FPU confusion FTBFS on arm > > > > > > The patch is from 2005, so that's probably early builds with ARMEL. > > > > Does the patch make sense to you in any way? If not we'll drop it... > > > > I think the patch does make sense, but only for doing floating point > arithmetic in PHP on very old hardware. > I am not sure if there are too many people that will benefit from this :-) > > Regards, > Ard. > >
