On 29 October 2012 07:45, Catalin Patulea <[email protected]> wrote: > This is setting the stage for a cleanup of FPREM and FPREM1 helpers while > being > sure that they behave same as bare metal. > > The test constructs operands using combinations of corner cases for the > floating-point bitfields and prints operands, result and FPU status word for > FPREM and FPREM1. The outputs can then be compared between bare metal and > QEMU. > The 'run-test-i386-fprem' make target does just that. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Patulea <[email protected]> > --- > Here is a refresh of the patch originally sent in back in July: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-07/msg02054.html > > At the time, there was some concern about use of bitfields. QEMU_PACKED > counteracts any -mms-bitfields passed to gcc. Are there still any concerns > over > this?
I'm not fantastically enthused about bitfields, but since this is a test program and not part of QEMU proper I don't think rewriting to avoid them is justified. -- PMM
