On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 07:38:43PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> Since this is in ISA 3.0 code only, I did not do the full bootstrap and make
> check sequence. I can do this if you prefer.
Yes, please do, to make sure you didn't accidentally break something else.
> Is the patch ok to put
There are some instructions in PowerPC ISA 3.0 that are not currently enabled
by default when you use -mcpu=power9. These instructions are currently added
with the -mpower9-minmax switch.
I recently built Spec 2006 with the current trunk compiler, and I discovered
that three of the benchmarks