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From: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
To: Tom Musta <tommusta@gmail.com>
Cc: "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>,
	QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/19] Add New softfloat Routines for VSX
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:34:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p1bo2deg9d.fsf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52694821.4040001@gmail.com>


tommusta@gmail.com writes:

> This patch adds routines to the softfloat library that are useful for
> the PowerPC VSX implementation.  The routines are, however, not specific
> to PowerPC and are approprriate for softfloat.
<snip>

Is it worth adding some sort of test into make check to defend these
softfloat functions against unintentional breakage? It would certainly
be worthwhile as soon as multiple arches use these functions as float
errors are often subtle and hard to track down.

-- 
Alex Bennée

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25 11:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24 16:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/19] PowerPC VSX Stage 3 Tom Musta
2013-10-24 16:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/19] Add New softfloat Routines for VSX Tom Musta
2013-10-24 18:34   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-25 11:34   ` Alex Bennée [this message]
2013-10-25 11:44     ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-25 13:09       ` Alex Bennée
2013-10-25 13:24       ` Tom Musta
2013-10-25 11:55   ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-25 13:01     ` Tom Musta
2013-10-25 13:37       ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-24 16:18 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/19] Add set_fprf Argument to fload_invalid_op_excp() Tom Musta
2013-10-24 16:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/19] General Support for VSX Helpers Tom Musta
2013-10-24 18:51   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 20:42     ` Tom Musta
2013-10-24 21:00       ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xadd Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 19:44   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:20 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xsub Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 19:48   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xmul Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:07   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xdiv Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:08   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xre Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:11   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:22 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xsqrt Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:23   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xrsqrte Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:25   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:23 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xtdiv Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:30   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:24 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 xtsqrt Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:34   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 Multiply Add Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:38   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-25 13:49     ` Tom Musta
2013-10-25 16:25     ` Tom Musta
2013-10-25 16:42       ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-25 17:13         ` Tom Musta
2013-10-25 17:29           ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-25 17:20       ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-25 17:34         ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 14/19] Add VSX xscmp*dp Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:39   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 15/19] Add VSX xmax/xmin Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:45   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 21:07     ` Tom Musta
2013-10-24 21:18       ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 22:10   ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-25 13:52     ` Tom Musta
2013-10-25 13:55       ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-24 16:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 16/19] Add VSX Vector Compare Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 17/19] Add VSX Floating Point to Floating Point Conversion Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:49   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 18/19] Add VSX ISA2.06 Integer " Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:51   ` Richard Henderson
2013-10-24 16:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 19/19] Add VSX Rounding Instructions Tom Musta
2013-10-24 20:54   ` Richard Henderson

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