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From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
Cc: Paul Martin <paul.martin@codethink.co.uk>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 4.0-rc1 breakage in FPE?
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:40:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EE4134.2050501@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yw1xh9u97k5c.fsf@unicorn.mansr.com>

On 02/25/2015 01:31 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Paul Martin <paul.martin@codethink.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Some change between 3.19 and 4.0-rc1 has broken the FPE such that some
>> code running on an Octeon II is subtly not working.
>>

Can you say where your userspace comes from, so we can try to reproduce 
the issue?



>> eg.
>>
>>    $ echo "1 2" | gawk '{ print $1 }'
>>    1 2
>>
>> which should output (and does output on 3.19)
>>
>>    $ echo "1 2" | gawk '{ print $1 }'
>>    1
>>
>> I'm going to try bisecting this over the next few days.
>
> Are you running a 32-bit userland?  If so, enabling
> MIPS_O32_FP64_SUPPORT should fix this.

??

32-bit userland (Debian for instance) typically shouldn't need special 
"Exprimental" config options enabled.

If we can identify the offending patch, we should revert it.


David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-25 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-25 18:20 4.0-rc1 breakage in FPE? Paul Martin
2015-02-25 21:30 ` Måns Rullgård
2015-02-25 21:31 ` Måns Rullgård
2015-02-25 21:40   ` David Daney [this message]
2015-02-25 21:48     ` Måns Rullgård
2015-02-26 11:29     ` Måns Rullgård
2015-02-27 10:53       ` Paul Martin

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