[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#458852: Bug#458852: octave3.0 crashes on arm

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-01 12:28]:

> Sigh, and all this with the knowledge that probably no real person uses
> Octave and friends on ARM.

No wonder.  As Riku Voipio wrote in a post to debian-devel-announce [1]:

    "As most ARM CPUs do not have FPUs, armel is by default softfloat. The
    old arm port has peculiar mixed-endian double presentation and it
    emulates a FPU using kernel exceptions, which is *painfully* slow."

Perhaps some users will try Octave on armel?  

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00004.html
    
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Rafael