Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-20 Thread Jürgen Urban
Hello Maciej, > > I tested the calculation with the type "float". > > ABI o32 with -mhard-float and -msingle-float produces the following > results: > > 1.00 (0x3f80) / 0.00 (0x) = nan (0x7fff) > > 0.00 (0x) / 0.00 (0x) = nan (0x7fff) > > 0.0

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Sandiford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" writes: >> I tested the calculation with the type "float". >> ABI o32 with -mhard-float and -msingle-float produces the following results: >> 1.00 (0x3f80) / 0.00 (0x) = nan (0x7fff) >> 0.00 (0x) / 0.00 (0x) = nan (0x7fff) >>

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-17 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Hi Jürgen, > > Glibc uses them exactly where it uses 32-bit LL/SC, except where a 64-bit > > data type is involved. Of course that also requires a 64-bit ABI, either > > n64 or n32, as these are 64-bit instructions -- from what you wrote thus > > far I've gathered, perhaps incorrectly, that yo

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-17 Thread Jürgen Urban
Hello Maciej, > > > Please note that the issue of LLD and SCD remains open -- these > > > instructions are a part of the base MIPS III 64-bit ISA and therefore > they > > > are assumed by glibc and elsewhere to be present, and they are not > > > emulated by Linux. So not only you'll have to fi

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-14 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Hi Jürgen, > > Now if that failed for you, then it's a plain bug in GAS that should be > > fixed. Can you therefore check whether a piece like: > > > > .setmips2 > > ll $2, ($3) > > > > assembles correctly with -march=r5900? > > This seems to work. I didn't know that this wo

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-13 Thread Jürgen Urban
Hello Maciej, > Now if that failed for you, then it's a plain bug in GAS that should be > fixed. Can you therefore check whether a piece like: > > .setmips2 > ll $2, ($3) > > assembles correctly with -march=r5900? This seems to work. I didn't know that this would work. I

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-11 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013, Richard Sandiford wrote: > BTW Maciej, sorry to be prickly about this, but: where I live, "I insist" > has a very domineering ring to it, at least in this kind of context. > The implication tends to be that "having insisted, I really expect it to > happen, simply because it is

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-11 Thread Richard Sandiford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" writes: > And in any case I insist that the instructions are correctly marked in > the opcode table. I agree that it would be better to exclude the unimplemented instructions. Jürgen: if you're happy to submit a patch along those lines, I promise to review it. BTW Maciej, s

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-10 Thread Jeff Law
On 01/10/2013 03:58 PM, "Jürgen Urban" wrote: Hello Jeff, If you're using something from the Cygnus port, then it would be covered by the blanket copyright assignment Cygnus had in place with the FSF. If there are any doubts about the origin of a hunk of GCC code I could probably pull out the o

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-10 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Jürgen, Adding the binutils list as more appropriate for some concerns discussed here. > > > > ll, sc, dmult, ddiv, cvt.w.s, 64 bit FPU instructions. > > > > ll and sc is disabled with "-mno-llsc" and works. > > > > cvt.w.s is replaced by trunc.w.s. This seems to work. > > > > > > Probably sho

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-10 Thread Jürgen Urban
Hello Jeff, > If you're using something from the Cygnus port, then it would be covered > by the blanket copyright assignment Cygnus had in place with the FSF. > If there are any doubts about the origin of a hunk of GCC code I could > probably pull out the old sources to determine if it came fro

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-08 Thread Jeff Law
On 01/08/2013 03:49 PM, "Jürgen Urban" wrote: @Jeff: I think you know the stringent copyright rules for GCC. I want to use the code from the original patch, but I don't know how many people were involved. So I can't use it without copyright problems. Can you please tell me which code can I use w

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-08 Thread Jürgen Urban
> > IIRC we defined doubles as 32bits wide in our old port. We simply > > didn't support 64bit wide doubles. I don't remember what mechanism we > > used to make this happen. > > Ah, yeah. I think limiting wide doubles would be good. > >>> I tried to disable dmult and ddiv (see mips.md). Disa

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-08 Thread Jürgen Urban
Hello Maciej, > > > ll, sc, dmult, ddiv, cvt.w.s, 64 bit FPU instructions. > > > ll and sc is disabled with "-mno-llsc" and works. > > > cvt.w.s is replaced by trunc.w.s. This seems to work. > > > > Probably showing my ignorance, but I couldn't see this in the patch. > > This has raised my atte

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-08 Thread Jürgen Urban
Hello Richard, > > cvt.w.s is replaced by trunc.w.s. This seems to work. > > Probably showing my ignorance, but I couldn't see this in the patch. trunc.w.s is enabled by ISA_HAS_TRUNC_W_S. This automatically disables cvt.w.s, because trunc.w.s is preferred. > > I disabled 64 bit FPU instructio

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-08 Thread Richard Sandiford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" writes: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Richard Sandiford wrote: >> >> > I disabled 64 bit FPU instructions by "-msoft-float". This works, but >> >> > using "-msingle-float" fails. This would be the better >> >> > configuration. There are still 64 bit FPU instructions used (e.g. "dmfc1 >

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-08 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Richard Sandiford wrote: > >> > I disabled 64 bit FPU instructions by "-msoft-float". This works, but > >> > using "-msingle-float" fails. This would be the better > >> > configuration. There are still 64 bit FPU instructions used (e.g. "dmfc1 > >> > $2,$f0" when using "long do

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Sandiford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" writes: >> > I disabled 64 bit FPU instructions by "-msoft-float". This works, but >> > using "-msingle-float" fails. This would be the better >> > configuration. There are still 64 bit FPU instructions used (e.g. "dmfc1 >> > $2,$f0" when using "long double" multiplication). So

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Sandiford
Jeff Law writes: > On 01/07/2013 02:52 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote: > >>> I disabled 64 bit FPU instructions by "-msoft-float". This works, but >>> using "-msingle-float" fails. This would be the better >>> configuration. There are still 64 bit FPU instructions used (e.g. "dmfc1 >>> $2,$f0" when u

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Sandiford
Richard Sandiford writes: > "Jürgen Urban" writes: >> ll, sc, dmult, ddiv, cvt.w.s, 64 bit FPU instructions. >> ll and sc is disabled with "-mno-llsc" and works. >> cvt.w.s is replaced by trunc.w.s. This seems to work. > > Probably showing my ignorance, but I couldn't see this in the patch. Maci

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Jeff Law
On 01/07/2013 02:52 PM, Richard Sandiford wrote: I disabled 64 bit FPU instructions by "-msoft-float". This works, but using "-msingle-float" fails. This would be the better configuration. There are still 64 bit FPU instructions used (e.g. "dmfc1 $2,$f0" when using "long double" multiplication).

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, Richard Sandiford wrote: > > ll, sc, dmult, ddiv, cvt.w.s, 64 bit FPU instructions. > > ll and sc is disabled with "-mno-llsc" and works. > > cvt.w.s is replaced by trunc.w.s. This seems to work. > > Probably showing my ignorance, but I couldn't see this in the patch. This h

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Sandiford
"Jürgen Urban" writes: > ll, sc, dmult, ddiv, cvt.w.s, 64 bit FPU instructions. > ll and sc is disabled with "-mno-llsc" and works. > cvt.w.s is replaced by trunc.w.s. This seems to work. Probably showing my ignorance, but I couldn't see this in the patch. > I disabled 64 bit FPU instructions by

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Richard Sandiford
Jeff Law writes: > On 01/06/2013 03:56 PM, "Jürgen Urban" wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I created a patch from scratch to support MIPS r5900 used in the >> Playstation 2, but I have some problems with it. The attached patch >> only works with the latest binutils from CVS. The binutils forces the >> compi

Re: Support for MIPS r5900

2013-01-07 Thread Jeff Law
On 01/06/2013 03:56 PM, "Jürgen Urban" wrote: Hello, I created a patch from scratch to support MIPS r5900 used in the Playstation 2, but I have some problems with it. The attached patch only works with the latest binutils from CVS. The binutils forces the compiler to use r5900 compatible instruc