Re: heads up - Qt qreal difference on ARM

2013-08-02 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:49:12PM -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote: http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.6/qtglobal.html#qreal-typedef typedef qreal Typedef for double on all platforms except for those using CPUs with ARM architectures. On ARM-based platforms, qreal is a typedef for float for

Re: heads up - Qt qreal difference on ARM

2013-08-02 Thread Florian Weimer
On 08/02/2013 09:45 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: https://developer.android.com/training/articles/perf-tips.html#avoidfloat there's no difference on modern hardware. (Note I didn't verify this.) That's about the Dalvik implementation. Other comments on that page suggest that it's so

Re: heads up - Qt qreal difference on ARM

2013-08-02 Thread Adam Jackson
On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 11:38 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: On 08/02/2013 09:45 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Judging by a google search for qreal float arm this difference causes endless problems. I even found a Fedora build bug related to it. However it's a matter for upstream to fix it.

Re: heads up - Qt qreal difference on ARM

2013-08-02 Thread Paulo César Pereira de Andrade
2013/8/2 Adam Jackson a...@redhat.com: On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 11:38 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: On 08/02/2013 09:45 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: Judging by a google search for qreal float arm this difference causes endless problems. I even found a Fedora build bug related to it.

heads up - Qt qreal difference on ARM

2013-08-01 Thread Orion Poplawski
http://doc.qt.digia.com/4.6/qtglobal.html#qreal-typedef typedef qreal Typedef for double on all platforms except for those using CPUs with ARM architectures. On ARM-based platforms, qreal is a typedef for float for performance reasons. This still seems to be the case for 4.8 as well. This