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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PATCH RFA: Fix simulator handling of floating point absolute value
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:03:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050708140058.GA17316@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3br5dx4ci.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:18:53PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> The common simulator routine sim_fpu_abs is used by MIPS, MN10300,
> SH64, and perhaps some CGEN generated simulators (it is called by
> cgen-accfp.c).  On most, and perhaps all, hardware, a floating point
> absolute value instruction simply clears the sign bit.  However,
> sim_fpu_abs does not clear the sign bit when given a NaN.  For MIPS,
> this causes the gcc test gcc.c-torture/execute/ieee/copysign1.c to
> fail.
> 
> This patch changes sim_fpu_abs to always clear the sign bit of the
> argument.  It does not otherwise change the behaviour.  This, plus
> another patch I am about to sign, fixes the gcc copysign1 test for
> MIPS.
> 
> OK for mainline?

I have no references for this concern, but could you check that this
change is appropriate for at least MN10300 and SH64, since they share
ths code?


-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-08 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-08  5:19 Ian Lance Taylor
2005-07-08 14:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2005-07-08 17:51   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2005-07-08 18:44     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-08 15:38 ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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