Hi, as part of Igalia's work on 32bit support we spent some time trying to iron out some bugs in JSC/intel 32bit builds. A bunch of them were related to rounding errors (or more precisely, differences) caused by the extended precision FP registers used by default in x87; which, in turn, is the default in GCC when compiling with -m32.
We discussed a number of solutions, but then we noticed that major browsers have in recent times already dropped support for x87: Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/your-hardware-no-longer-supported Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7100626?hl=en This removes a small maintenance burden and prevents future bugs like the ones we investigated. Also, in practice, intel hardware older than Pentium 4-era machines is very rare. All this considered, we decided it made sense to do the same in WebKit. In short, this email is a RFC to see if anyone in the WebKit community objects to this change, or has any comment about it. The bug where we have attached the patch for this change is: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194853 Regards, Xan
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