On 19/01/11 16:18, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 19/01/11 16:02, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Michael Schnell<mschn...@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.
Just to elaborate, if it crashes with SIGILL, then the device really has
no fpu.
Henry
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