Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/12] ARM: Return correct result for single<->double conversion of NaN

[Nathan Froyd]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 08:04:42PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 29 November 2010 19:54, Nathan Froyd <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 07:25:18PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> (b) add to and extend the softfloat API whenever you have some
> >> floating-point related thing it doesn't currently support
> >
> > I think this is the best approach whenever possible.
> 
> OK. Do we care about maintaining consistency of the API between
> softfloat and softfloat-native (the latter used only on x86, x86_64,
> cris, sh4, sh4eb)?

softfloat-native should just go away.  I would not worry about API
compatibility between native and non-native configurations there.

> >> (c) do something suboptimal where the softfloat API provides
> >> some-API-but-not-quite-the-ideal-API (which I'm not particularly
> >> keen on and is what I see the "is_nan() || is_signalling_nan()"
> >> approach as)
> >
> > Yes, this is ugly.  Are you up for running:
> >
> >  perl -p -i -e 's/float(\d+)_is_nan/float\1_is_quiet_nan/g' target-*/*.c
> >
> > (and also carefully in fpu/*) or similar and moving the bit-twiddling
> > float_is_nan into fpu/?
> 
> I'm happy to produce a patch doing that if it will be committed :-)

Well, I can't promise the committal part... :)

-Nathan