Using library calls will force you to do a lot of push/pop/register
shuffling and the performance will be poor. That being said if you are
moving form a VFP soc to a non VFP soc you may not have an L2 cache either
in which case performance is going to be low anyway.

HTH,
Rodolph.


On 5 August 2013 11:21, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Rodolph Perfetta
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Oh, I guess you're right - I think I misread VFP as VFP3 in the OP's post.
>
> @OP: softfloat (as opposed to softfp) is not supported.  In theory,
> it'd be possible for V8 to emit library calls rather than VFP
> instructions but in practice it doesn't.  Making it softfloat
> compatible would be a fair amount of work, I think.
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