On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 09:28:55AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 4/10/19 3:27 PM, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This is a set of patches to bring FPU support to the OpenRISC backend.  The
> > backend also add support for 64-bit floating point operations on 32-bit 
> > cores
> > using register pairs, see orfpx64a32 [0].
> > 
> > This depends on binutils patches which have also been submitted per review. 
> > [1]
> > 
> > The toolchain has been tested using the gcc and binutils testsuites as well 
> > as
> > floating point test suites running on sim and an fpga soft core 
> > or1k_marocchino.
> > [2]
> > 
> > There is also an unrelated, but trivial patch to fix a code quality issue 
> > with
> > volatile memory loads.
> > 
> > This whole patch series can be found on my github repo [3] as well.
> > 
> > -Stafford
> > 
> > [0] https://openrisc.io/proposals/orfpx64a32
> > [1] g...@github.com:stffrdhrn/binutils-gdb.git orfpx64a32-2
> > [2] https://github.com/openrisc/or1k_marocchino
> > [3] g...@github.com:stffrdhrn/gcc.git or1k-fpu-1a
> > 
> > Stafford Horne (3):
> >   or1k: Initial support for FPU
> >   or1k: Allow volatile memory for sign/zero extend loads
> >   or1k: only force reg for immediates
> > 
> >  gcc/config.gcc                |   1 +
> >  gcc/config/or1k/or1k.c        |  10 ++--
> >  gcc/config/or1k/or1k.md       | 109 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >  gcc/config/or1k/or1k.opt      |  15 ++++-
> >  gcc/config/or1k/predicates.md |  16 +++++
> >  gcc/doc/invoke.texi           |  15 +++++
> >  6 files changed, 156 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> So the only question is whether or not you're looking to drop this into
> gcc-9 or gcc-10.
> 
> gcc-9 is in regression bugfixing stage, so technically this patch should
> wait to gcc-10.  However, we usually give maintainers a degree of
> freedom, particularly if a change doens't "bleed" into generic parts of
> the compiler.
> 
> So we'll leave it up to you to decide if you want to add this to gcc-9
> or wait for gcc-10.

Hi Jeff,

Thanks, I know I sent all the patches together for review.  But, I am thinking
for gcc-9 I will only be aiming at including 2/3.  The others are only needed
for FPU support and I can wait for gcc-10.

We had a quick discussion about this on irc yesterday too.

-Stafford

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