Version 3.0.2.

src/platform-linux.cc

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 //
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       }
     }
   }
   fclose(f);
 
   // Did not find string in the proc file.
   return false;
 }
 
 bool OS::ArmCpuHasFeature(CpuFeature feature) {
-  const char* search_string = NULL;
+  const int max_items = 2;
+  const char* search_strings[max_items] = { NULL, NULL };
+  int search_items = 0;
   // Simple detection of VFP at runtime for Linux.
   // It is based on /proc/cpuinfo, which reveals hardware configuration
   // to user-space applications.  According to ARM (mid 2009), no similar
   // facility is universally available on the ARM architectures,
   // so it's up to individual OSes to provide such.
   switch (feature) {
     case VFP3:
-      search_string = "vfpv3";
+      search_strings[0] = "vfpv3";
+      // Some old kernels will report vfp for A8, not vfpv3, so we check for
+      // A8 explicitely. The cpuinfo file report the CPU Part which for Cortex
+      // A8 is 0xc08.
+      search_strings[1] = "0xc08";
+      search_items = 2;
+      ASSERT(search_items <= max_items);
       break;
     case ARMv7:
-      search_string = "ARMv7";
+      search_strings[0] = "ARMv7" ;
+      search_items = 1;
+      ASSERT(search_items <= max_items);
       break;
     default:
       UNREACHABLE();
   }
 
-  if (CPUInfoContainsString(search_string)) {
-    return true;
-  }
-
-  if (feature == VFP3) {
-    // Some old kernels will report vfp not vfpv3. Here we make a last attempt
-    // to detect vfpv3 by checking for vfp *and* neon, since neon is only
-    // available on architectures with vfpv3.
-    // Checking neon on its own is not enough as it is possible to have neon
-    // without vfp.
-    if (CPUInfoContainsString("vfp") && CPUInfoContainsString("neon")) {
+  for (int i = 0; i < search_items; ++i) {
+    if (CPUInfoContainsString(search_strings[i])) {
       return true;
     }
   }
 
   return false;
 }
 #endif  // def __arm__
 
 
 int OS::ActivationFrameAlignment() {
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   }
 
   // This sampler is no longer the active sampler.
   active_sampler_ = NULL;
 }
 
 
 #endif  // ENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING
 
 } }  // namespace v8::internal