Note that, historically, Intel has maintained the x87 port, and it's listed here as not officially supported: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki/Handling-of-Ports . Also, a lot of the platform-specific code is in Crankshaft and Fullcodegen, which would not be necessary to maintain after a full transition to Ignition and Turbofan.
Dan On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:25 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Ben, >> >> Thanks a lot for your reply. >> >> First of all, how will I get to know which patches need to be ported. >> Second, how will I test if the port worked fine? >> >> A very simple explanation would be really appreciated. :) >> >> Thanks, >> Umair > > As a rule of thumb, if a commit touches files ending in -ia32.cc or > -ia32.h (that's the x86+sse2 backend), chances are it needs to be > ported to the x87 backend. Fortunately, most ports are very > straightforward and the test suite will catch most bugs. Hope that > helps. > > -- > -- > v8-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
