[patch][0/5] powerpc: Add support to fully comply with IEEE-754 standard

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 30 01:30:32 EST 2007


On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:00 AM, Zhu Ebony-r57400 wrote:

> Hi Kumar,
>
> I think enabling SPEFSCR[FINXE] or SPEFSCR[FRMC]=0b10/0b11 to  
> enable FP
> round interrupt will cause the exception occurring very often, which
> will dramatically decrease the performance of SPE instructions. Do you
> think putting an option in menuconfig to let user choose whether to
> enable FP round simulation is a reasonable idea?

I don't see any issue with it, but I have to believe if you want full  
IEEE results, you want full IEEE results for everything.

- k



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