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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 18:12:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071107231201.GA3820@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071107230525.GG19509@hall.aurel32.net>

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:05:25AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Has Thiemo already said, there is no IEEE behavior. If you look at the
> IEEE 754 document you will see that it has requirements on what should
> be supported by an IEEE compliant FPU, but has very few requirements on
> the implementation.

If folks don't like the target conditionals there, I recommend we just
set some low bit to be sure it's a NaN and move on.  The softfloat
implementation is not all that close to matching any one hardware FPU.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-07 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03 17:35 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-03 18:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-11-03 19:14   ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-03 21:28   ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-06 20:01     ` J. Mayer
2007-11-06 21:14       ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-11-07 23:05       ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-07 23:12         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-11-08  0:41           ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-11-09 22:31         ` J. Mayer
2007-11-10  9:35           ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-10 13:31             ` J. Mayer
2007-11-10 16:15               ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-10 17:14                 ` J. Mayer
2007-11-10 18:09                   ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-10 22:44                     ` J. Mayer
2007-11-10 21:18     ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-11-10 21:46       ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-21 15:49         ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-12-16 12:43           ` Aurelien Jarno
2007-11-03 18:30 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-11-03 19:13   ` Aurelien Jarno

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