[cairo] Floating point API in Pixman

[Jean-Claude Repetto]

Le 12/08/2010 12:24, Soeren Sandmann a écrit :
> Andrea Canciani<ranma42 at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> If we can't assume that we have a (fast) FPU,
>
> There is a fairly common misconception that ARM CPUs never have
> hardware floating point; that may be part of why some people are
> worried.
>
> However, until we hear from someone who can credibly claim that he is
> going to ship pixman to a non-trivial number of people on non-FPU
> hardware, I think assuming hardware floating point is fine.

Only high-end ARM processors of the most recent family (ARM-11) have a FPU.
For example, TomTom PNAs contain ARM-9 processors, and millions of them 
have been shipped.

Jean-Claude