Re:The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2
by danachow on Friday April 22, 2022 @07:14AM
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> ARM spends it on pc being wrong.
Heh, having dealt with x86 for years, this is comparatively such a nothing burger. It's always a simple known fixed offset.
> softfloat vs softfp vs hardfp vs vfp
That's something not really unique to ARM per se. Any architecture with options for hardware FPU are going to practically need ABI specs for the soft and hard cases (you don't absolutely need anything more than hardfp since you can always emulate but it will be slow as shit) - and ARM is certainly not unique in having multiple hardware floating point implementations either.
> two incompatible assembly language dialects
Curious what you're referring to here - but I personally wouldn't consider assembly language dialects to be part of a CPU architecture.
Heh, having dealt with x86 for years, this is comparatively such a nothing burger. It's always a simple known fixed offset.
> softfloat vs softfp vs hardfp vs vfp
That's something not really unique to ARM per se. Any architecture with options for hardware FPU are going to practically need ABI specs for the soft and hard cases (you don't absolutely need anything more than hardfp since you can always emulate but it will be slow as shit) - and ARM is certainly not unique in having multiple hardware floating point implementations either.
> two incompatible assembly language dialects
Curious what you're referring to here - but I personally wouldn't consider assembly language dialects to be part of a CPU architecture.