On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:25:38AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> For an instruction supported on all variants (both BookE and E500)
> with a double precision FPU.

I think you have your terminology switched.  E500 is (very
approximately) an implementation of Book E; the FPR-based FPU is
usually called "classic FP" and dates back long before Book E,
at least to the 601.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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