Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] PowerPC Decimal Floating Point

2014-02-14 Thread Tom Musta
On 2/14/2014 3:22 PM, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 02/11/2014 11:38 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: My proposal is to incorporate the libdecnumber component of libdfp (http://www.eglibc.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/libdfp/trunk/) in a manner analogous to how softfloat is used for binary f

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] PowerPC Decimal Floating Point

2014-02-14 Thread Richard Henderson
On 02/11/2014 11:38 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> > My proposal is to incorporate the libdecnumber component of libdfp >> > (http://www.eglibc.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/libdfp/trunk/) in a manner >> > analogous to how >> > softfloat is used for binary floating point. So, for example, the helper >> >

Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] PowerPC Decimal Floating Point

2014-02-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.02.2014, at 18:14, Tom Musta wrote: > QEMU is currently lacking support for the Decimal Floating Point category of > instructions > (see Power ISA V2.07 Chapter 6). I intend to add this support. > > Has this topic been investigated before and if so can anyone point me to that > discuss