Thanks for the check Gabe....

I'll have some time next week to try to come up with a potential patch and
try to update the tree...

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Gabriel Michael Black <[email protected]
> wrote:

> I looked briefly at that change earlier, and I do think it's likely
> that I broke it. I don't know how much time I'll have to dig into it
> in the near future, but I'll put it on my short(ish :-/) list.
>
> Gabe
>
> Quoting Matt <[email protected]>:
>
> > Gabe,
> >
> > It looks like it was your changes that broke this.  Do you have any
> > insight on this?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm having problems getting double-precision floating-point to work in
> >> m5 for the MIPS isa.
> >>
> >> The 32-bit MIPS isa has 32 32-bit floating-point registers.
> >> Double-precision floating-point numbers are stored in pairs of
> >> floating-point registers.  At least that's how I understand it.
> >>
> >> Simple floating point math used to work in m5 until changeset
> >> 781969fbeca9.  After the change, it seams that m5 does not read two
> >> 32-bit floating point registers to get a double-precision
> >> floating-point operand, but only one 32-bit floating-point register
> >> (when it's simulating an add_d instruction, for example).  This
> >> results in incorrect floating point arithmetic.
> >>
> >> I have the following C program (compiled for MIPS) that exercises
> >> the problem:
> >>
> >> #include<stdio.h>
> >>
> >> int main (void)
> >> {
> >>        double x, y, z;
> >>
> >>        x = 5.0;
> >>        y = 0.1;
> >>
> >>        z = x + y;
> >>
> >>        printf ("z = %lf\n", z);
> >>
> >>        return 0;
> >> }
> >>
> >> It should print "z = 5.1", but it doesn't because the simulation of
> >> the floating-point addition is wrong.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell me why this change was made that seems to break the
> >> simulation of double-precision floating-point arithmetic in m5?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> Matt
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Matt
> >
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> m5-dev mailing list
> [email protected]
> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev
>



-- 
- Korey
_______________________________________________
m5-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/m5-dev

Reply via email to