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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Steve Reinhardt


On Sept. 25, 2013, 3:13 a.m., Andreas Sandberg wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 25, 2013, 3:13 a.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Repository: gem5
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> Description
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> Changeset 9887:09a183884098
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> x86: Add support routines to load and store 80-bit floats
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> The x87 FPU on x86 supports extended floating point. We currently
> handle all floating point on x86 as double and don't support 80-bit
> loads/stores. This changeset add a utility function to load and
> convert 80-bit floats to doubles (loadFloat80) and another function to
> store doubles as 80-bit floats (storeFloat80). Both functions use
> libfputils to do the conversion in software. The functions are
> currently not used, but are required to handle floating point in KVM
> and to properly support all x87 loads/stores.
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> Diffs
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>   src/arch/x86/utility.hh 372d3611c693 
>   src/arch/x86/utility.cc 372d3611c693 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/2020/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Sandberg
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