Re: [PATCH 1/2] sim: testsuite: Get common tests compiling again

[Stafford Horne via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>]

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 10:15:02PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 05 Oct 2017 23:17, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > This is a series of changes to the the old and non working sim common
> > testsuite .  As far as I can tell this has not been used since what
> > looks like before 64-bit desktop computers became common.  Most of the
> > changes here are to convert the test code to be 64-bit portable.
> 
> sorry for not seeing this sooner.  i stumbled across this dir myself
> recently and came to the same conclusions you did (about the non-fpu
> stuff).  i pushed some fixes to get it working on my 64-bit desktop.
> 
> i haven't tried to integrate the build though.  i was going to let
> that wait until we had better overall build integration than add some
> more subdir-configure scripts, then should be able to revisit.

OK.

> > The fpu-tst tool actually depends on external code from v2 of berkeley
> > softfloat [1] and testfloat [2] libraries which I cleaned up so the
> > would actually build on a modern compiler.  The build will generate a
> > 'testfloat' binary which will be used to compare the sim-fpu vs the
> > softfloat implementation.
> 
> ah, very cool.  i saw those includes and thought those were weird but
> then gave up on trying to track them down.  i assumed it was some weird
> thing that didn't exist anymore.
> 
> can you refresh these and see how many are still needed ?  i think the
> alu-tst & bits-gen & bits-tst files should be all set now in the latest
> tree.  for the fpu-tst, how about we put the details/comments into the
> source file itself for now ?
> -mike

Sure, it will take me some time to get done.

-Stafford