Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/19] target-alpha: use new float64_unordered() function

[Richard Henderson]

On 04/14/2011 09:48 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Or the other approach would be to do something like
> how the 'denormal-input-went-to-zero' case is handled: have
> an extra float_flag for float_flag_output_denormal, and let
> targets either (a) special-case it or (b) merge it with
> whichever of underflow or inexact they like when constructing
> the guest-visible floating point status flags. I kind of like
> that better, actually.

Either of your proposed solutions works for me.

Either allows significant freedom in the backend to decide on
how to implement the per-instruction selection.


r~