Current egcs, binutils and kernel (fwd)

Paul Mackerras paulus at cs.anu.edu.au
Sat Apr 24 22:35:04 EST 1999


Gabriel Paubert <paubert at iram.es> wrote:

> to correctly implement this. And then I've noticed just after that people
> do more work than necessary in the cvt_df and cvt_fd routines: floating
> point loads and stores never affect or depend on the FPSCR contents, so

Arrghl, you're right.  I had thought you could get overflows or other
errors being signalled, that's why I had the fpscr load/save in there,
but it appears from the manual that I was wrong.

Paul.

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