From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: From: diekema@bucks.si.com (diekema_jon) Subject: Re: Floating Point problems with Linux on the EST SBC8260 To: roman@alerton.com, linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 11:36:54 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <392C3ED0.594EB6F7@alerton.com> from "Bill Roman" at May 24, 2000 01:42:56 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 13:42:56 -0700 > From: Bill Roman > diekema_jon wrote: > > - I am looking for a floating point validation test suite written in > > C. The test suite should start with the fundamentals and work out > > from there. > Try paranoia.c. A web search should turn up multiple copies, I found one at > http://www.enseeiht.fr/NetLib/paranoia/index.html > A while back I had the floating point emulator from kernel 2.3 > patched into kernel 2.2.13 running on an MBX, and it did reasonably > well on this test as I recall. paranoia.c was quite helpful in verifying the floating point operation on the EST SBC8260 board with a MPC8260 Rev A.1. I statically compiled this program under Yellow Dog Linux champion server 1.2, and ran it on the SBC8260. paranoia.c didn't find anything to complain about. :) ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/