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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/19] target-alpha: use new float64_unordered() function
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:01:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA72882.7080202@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin=LzT2X44ux1ZgBmof-pDv_zDf-g@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/14/2011 09:48 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Or the other approach would be to do something like
> how the 'denormal-input-went-to-zero' case is handled: have
> an extra float_flag for float_flag_output_denormal, and let
> targets either (a) special-case it or (b) merge it with
> whichever of underflow or inexact they like when constructing
> the guest-visible floating point status flags. I kind of like
> that better, actually.

Either of your proposed solutions works for me.

Either allows significant freedom in the backend to decide on
how to implement the per-instruction selection.


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-14 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-12 21:59 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] softfloat and FPU fixes/improvements Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/19] softfloat: use GCC builtins to count the leading zeros Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/19] cpu-all.h: define CPU_LDoubleU Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/19] target-i386: use CPU_LDoubleU instead of a private union Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/19] target-i386: use float unions from cpu-all.h Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/19] target-i386: add floatx_{add, mul, sub} and use them Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/19] softfloat: add float*_unordered_{, quiet}() functions Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/19] softfloat-native: add float*_unordered_quiet() functions Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/19] target-alpha: use new float64_unordered() function Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-13 14:52   ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-13 15:38     ` Richard Henderson
2011-04-13 15:42       ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-13 15:53         ` Richard Henderson
2011-04-13 18:18           ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-14  9:14       ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-14 15:14         ` Richard Henderson
2011-04-14 15:39           ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-14 16:27             ` Richard Henderson
2011-04-14 16:48               ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-14 17:01                 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/19] target-mips: use new float*_unordered*() functions Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/19] target-i386: fix CMPUNORDPS/D and CMPORDPS/D instructions Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/19] softfloat: rename float*_eq() into float*_eq_quiet() Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/19] softfloat: rename float*_eq_signaling() into float*_eq() Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/19] softfloat: move float*_eq and float*_eq_quiet Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/19] softfloat: improve description of comparison functions Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/19] target-arm: fix wrong usage of floatx80_eq_quiet() Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 22:41   ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-13 18:11     ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/19] target-alpha: fix wrong usage of float64_eq_quiet() Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-13 15:15   ` Peter Maydell
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/19] target-ppc: fix SPE comparison functions Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-13  2:40   ` Nathan Froyd
2011-04-13 18:11     ` Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/19] target-mips: simplify FP comparisons Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-12 21:59 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/19] target-mips: don't hardcode softfloat exception bits Aurelien Jarno
2011-04-13 15:45 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] softfloat and FPU fixes/improvements Peter Maydell

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