On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:24:25PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote: > 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?
Sure, but I won't be able to run it under the test suite. -- Michael Meissner, IBM IBM, M/S 2506R, 550 King Street, Littleton, MA 01460-6245, USA email: meiss...@linux.vnet.ibm.com, phone: +1 (978) 899-4797
