The question is does v8 work when there is no hardware floating point present and the answer is no.
softfp is the name of the abi which assumes hardware floating point but uses integer result for function call. Nowadays a lot of software on ARM (all the ubuntu packages for example) are compile for hardware floating point. On 5 August 2013 10:45, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Thulasidhar JK <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > We are planning to use Blink+V8 as the browser in our embedded devices > > (blu-ray players) > > > > We are currently using Webkit+JSC on ARMv6z CPU and are moving into a new > > variant of this chipset, which does not have VFP copro. > > The JSC JIT is heavily dependent on hw vfp and hence we are blocked on > our > > development. > > > > Now we are thinking to shift to Blink+V8 and in this regard we would to > > understand if V8 can be used in this scenario. > > Please let me know your thoughts on this. > > > > Warm Regards, > > JK > > If your question is "does V8 work with softfp?" then the answer is > "yes, it does." Compile it with `make arm.release > armfloatabi=softfp`. > > There are a few more ARM-specific switches, you can find them in the > Makefile. You probably want to tweak armfpu and (maybe) armthumb. > > -- > -- > v8-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-users" 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/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- v8-users mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-users --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-users" 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/groups/opt_out.
