[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#534177: Please provide single-precision library as well

Gonéri Le Bouder goneri at rulezlan.org
Mon Jun 22 22:09:58 UTC 2009


2009/6/22 Nikita V. Youshchenko <yoush at debian.org>:
>> > > on some hardware like the Openmoko FreeRunner, using libode built
>> > > with double precision is not possible, as it it just too slow. This
>> > > can be worked around with building ode with single precision. Having
>> > > such a package in Debian would enable the use of mokomaze.
>> > > ...
>> >
>> > Make sence, but how will you switch between the two different lib
>> > since they don't share the same ABI? Maybe we can disable double
>> > precision on the slow archs (armel, mips, m68k). I don't know if it's
>> > an acceptable solution?
>>
>> hmm, right, didn’t think of the ABI incompatibility.
>>
>> Making this dependent on the architecture sounds like a good compromise
>> to me, at least until someone else complains.
>
> Why not just make two libs with different sonames?
Yes this is an option even if it won't fix completely the performance problem.

Cheers,

    Gonéri



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