From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, patches@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] target-arm: Refactor int-float conversions
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 15:09:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105061509.37212.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304686095-30265-5-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> The Neon versions of int-float conversions need their own helper routines
> because they must use the "standard FPSCR" rather than the default one.
> Refactor the helper functions to make it easy to add the neon versions.
> While we're touching the code, move the helpers to op_helper.c so that
> we can use the global env variable rather than passing it as a parameter.
IMO this is going in the wrong direction. We should in aiming for less
implicit accesses to cpu state, not more.
Maybe better would be to explicitly pass a pointer the fp status. That way you
don't even need separate VFP and NEON variants of these routines.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-06 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-06 12:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] target-arm: Fix bugs in fp exception flag setting Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] target-arm: Don't set FP exceptions in recip, recip_sqrt estimate fns Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] target-arm: Signal InputDenormal for VRECPE, VRSQRTE, VRECPS, VRSQRTS Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] target-arm: Signal InvalidOp for Neon GE and GT compares of QNaN Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] target-arm: Refactor int-float conversions Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 14:09 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2011-05-06 14:42 ` Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 15:30 ` Blue Swirl
2011-05-06 16:38 ` Paul Brook
2011-05-08 10:32 ` Blue Swirl
2011-05-14 22:38 ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] target-arm: Add separate Neon float-int conversion helpers Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] softfloat: Add new flag for when denormal result is flushed to zero Peter Maydell
2011-05-06 12:48 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] target-arm: Signal Underflow when denormal flushed to zero on output Peter Maydell
2011-05-17 18:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] target-arm: Fix bugs in fp exception flag setting Peter Maydell
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