On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Michael Meissner <meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > In backporting the power8 changes to the 4.8 branch, one of the testers of > these patches noticed that libgcc cannot be built on a linux SPE target. The > reason was the _Decimal64 type did not have a proper move insn in the SPE > environment. This patch fixes that issue. In looking at the patch, I > discovered two other thinkos that are fixed in this patch. > > The first problem is the movdf/movdd insns for 32-bit without hardware > floating > point, checked whether we had hardware single precision support, when it > should > have been checking that we had hardware double precision support. > > The second problem was that some of the types believed they could use the > floating point registers in a SPE or software emulation enviornment. So I > added additional code to turn off the use of the FPRs in this case. > > I have done bootstraps and make check on 64-bit PowerPC linux systems with no > regression. In addition, I tested the code generated using cross compilers to > the Linux SPE system. Is this patch acceptible to be checked in the trunk > (and > to the 4.8 branch when the other patches are approved)?
Mike, Can you work with Edmar and Rohit to create a testcase for the GCC testsuite as well? Thanks, David
