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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/19] Add New softfloat Routines for VSX
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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