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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: paul@codesourcery.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch] CPU_DoubleU and soft-float
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 21:47:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42558E67.2060007@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200503262053.32734.paul@codesourcery.com>

OK for the patch.

It would be better to force the use of soft float on ARM if the VFP is 
not present. Supporting weird ordering for doubles is a source of 
problems and soft float may be faster than the kernel based ARM fpu 
emulator anyway.

Fabrice.

Paul Brook wrote:
> The definition of CPU_DoubleU is incorrect on arm hosts when using
> soft-float. In this case "float64" will have host integer word ordering, not
> host hardware float ordering.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Index: cpu-all.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvsroot/qemu/qemu/cpu-all.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.42
> diff -u -p -r1.42 cpu-all.h
> --- cpu-all.h 13 Mar 2005 18:50:23 -0000 1.42
> +++ cpu-all.h 26 Mar 2005 20:48:25 -0000
> @@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ static inline void tswap64s(uint64_t *s)
>     endian ! */
>  typedef union {
>      float64 d;
> -#if defined(WORDS_BIGENDIAN) || (defined(__arm__) && !defined(__VFP_FP__))
> +#if defined(WORDS_BIGENDIAN) \
> +    || (defined(__arm__) && !defined(__VFP_FP__) && !defined(CONFIG_SOFTFLOAT))
>      struct {
>          uint32_t upper;
>          uint32_t lower;
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-07 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-26 20:53 [Qemu-devel] [patch] CPU_DoubleU and soft-float Paul Brook
2005-04-07 19:47 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2005-04-08  0:05   ` Paul Brook

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