Since there were no negative comments in the list, just another extra positive comment in the bug itself, we have landed this: https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/243293/webkit
Xan On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 7:00 PM Xan <xan.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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