[patch][0/5] powerpc V2 : Add support to fully comply with IEEE-754 standard

[Sergei Shtylyov]

Hello.

Zhu Ebony-r57400 wrote:

>>>>>>Did you end up getting testfloat running?  I'd like to see some 
>>>>>>testing results before accepting these patches.  I think estfloat is
>>>>>>our best bet at this point.

>>>>>Hi Kumar,

>>>>>I looked into the testfloat suit, and found all the instructions it 
>>>>>tests (more than 50)should be implemented based on ASM.

>>>>Don't follow?  Can't you build it with the e500 compiler?

>>>The TestFloat suite provided the target of 386-Win32-gcc and 
>>>SPARC-Solaris-gcc only, and a template for user to porting his own 
>>>processor. Some general instructions are implemented in C, but some 
>>>CPU specific instructions like evfsmul need to be implemented 
>>>assemblely. To build it with e500 compiler we still Have some porting 
>>>work to do.

>>I wouldn't worry too much about the vector forms.  If the 
>>scalar single fp and double fp test out ok the vectors are 
>>pretty much similar enough.

>>Lets just get the scalar versions tested and work out any 
>>issues there.

> OK, I will focus on scalar SFPF and DPFP versions first.

    Any progress with this patchset?

WBR, Sergei