Difference between armeabi and armeabi-v7a

Question

As far as I can tell from the docs, the difference between the two supported flavors of ARM architecture in Android NDK is only in the set of supported CPU instructions. Is

Answer 1

You definitely can run armeabi shared library on v7, and you can call its exported functions from another module. So, to be on the safe side, I would create a separate .so file from you Pascal code, sticking to armeabi (maybe with some C/C++ wrappers), and use this shared library with both your armeabi and armeabi-v7a libraries. The easiest way to load everything in correct order is to use

System.loadLibrary("pascal"); // armeabi
System.loadLibrary("c++"); // the platform will choose armeabi or armeabi-v7a