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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat
From: |
Thiemo Seufer |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:41:57 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:05:25AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Has Thiemo already said, there is no IEEE behavior. If you look at the
> > IEEE 754 document you will see that it has requirements on what should
> > be supported by an IEEE compliant FPU, but has very few requirements on
> > the implementation.
>
> If folks don't like the target conditionals there, I recommend we just
> set some low bit to be sure it's a NaN and move on.
I disagree. I chose on purpose the format recommended in the MIPS
architecture specification. The general format seems to be commonly
preferred beyond the MIPS world.
> The softfloat
> implementation is not all that close to matching any one hardware FPU.
At least for MIPS I expect it to be close enough to real hardware.
Thiemo
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, J. Mayer, 2007/11/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, J. Mayer, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, J. Mayer, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, J. Mayer, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Thiemo Seufer, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat, Aurelien Jarno, 2007/11/21