[cairo] Re: Flag for FP-challenged platforms

[Christof Petig]

Daniel Amelang schrieb:
>> --disable-floating-point
> 
> Well, that's where I started, and perhaps where I should go back to,
> but I'll tell you what issues I had with this:
> 
> It's false advertising. We don't disable floating point. We just avoid
> it in a couple places. 99% of the floating point code is still
> executed. So if we had this, I can just see someone coming back and
> complaining that their cairo library still has floating point
> instructions all over the place, so the flag must be broken, etc.
> 
> Or worse, word gets around that cairo has a --disable-floating-point
> option now. "Yay! I knew they would come to their senses and create
> that fixed-point API we've been pushing so hard." ;)

What about

--disable-most-floating-point
  or
--disable-expansive-floating-point
  or
--disable-expansive-math

   Christof

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