(03-12-2015, 11:42 PM)Shonumi Wrote: Moved to the correct forum (for real this time).
About dropping 32-bit support, I don't think that's going to happen, at least not now. I recall Sonicadvance1 saying something to the effect that supporting 32-bit ARM CPUs isn't troublesome like supporting 32-bit x86 CPUs. That is to say, the reasons 32-bit support on x86 CPUs was dropped don't necessarily apply to ARM. He'll probably know more about it specifically.
he explained it quite well in another post. ARMv7 has many advantages over 32bit x86, including much better handling of floating point and extended integers. One of the big reasons 32bit was dropped was because of hacks needed to work around address and word size limitations, neither of which seem to affect armv7 nearly as much. Assuming sonic is interested in maintaining the armv7 JIT, I see no reason in the near future for support to be dropped.