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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] softfloat/arm: fix 'int32 is 32 bits' assumptions
@ 2012-01-16 18:34 Peter Maydell
  2012-01-16 18:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] target-arm/helper.c: Don't assume softfloat int32 is 32 bits only Peter Maydell
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From: Peter Maydell @ 2012-01-16 18:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: Andreas Färber, patches

These patches fix some assumptions that are made by various bits
of code that the softfloat 'int32' and 'uint32' types are exactly
32 bits rather than at least 32 bits. I found these issues as part
of testing Andreas' recent softfloat type fixes patchset. What
I did was to take the first four patches from Andreas' set (the
fixes for type mixups) and then do a test run of my ARM VFP/Neon
tests with the following two sets of typedefs:

/* maximum-width versions */
typedef uint64_t flag;
typedef uint64_t uint8;
typedef int64_t int8;
typedef uint64_t uint16;
typedef int64_t int16;
typedef uint64_t uint32;
typedef int64_t int32;
typedef uint64_t uint64;
typedef int64_t int64;

/* minimum-width versions */
typedef uint8_t flag;
typedef uint8_t uint8;
typedef int8_t int8;
typedef uint16_t uint16;
typedef int16_t int16;
typedef uint32_t uint32;
typedef int32_t int32;
typedef uint64_t uint64;
typedef int64_t int64;

to flush out the two obvious possible problems: code which
assumes the type is larger than it might be, and code which
assumes the type is not as large as it might be. These test
runs revealed a few bugs, which this patchseries fixes.
These are basically all assumptions about the size of int32
in float-to-int or int-to-float code, and represent real rather
than theoretical problems with the switch to int_fast*_t
since on 64 bit hosts int_fast32_t is typically 64 bits.

NB: I think I've fairly solidly exercised the bits of softfloat
that ARM uses, but can't guarantee coverage of anything that's
only used by other targets or target-specific non-ARM code.

Andreas: these sit after your patches 1-4, so it might be
easiest if you just stick them in your patch series; like
your 1-4 they can be applied now as they make sense even without
the type conversion patches.


Peter Maydell (3):
  target-arm/helper.c: Don't assume softfloat int32 is 32 bits only
  softfloat: float*_to_int32_round_to_zero: don't assume int32 is 32 bits
  softfloat: roundAndPackInt{32,64}: Don't assume int32 is 32 bits

 fpu/softfloat.c     |   12 ++++++------
 target-arm/helper.c |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

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