Hi John,

>> [My case] has nothing to do with tracking uninitialized bits etc in floating
>> point numbers.  In fact if valgrind ignored floating point numbers and
>> just executed them natively that would be fine with me.
>
> What I distill from this is a request for a "FP mode" which checks
> loads from memory to FP registers for valid [allocated] addresses
> and [un]init bit values, but immediately marks the bits in the register
> as all init or all uninit.  FP operations track data flow, but again
> the result bits are marked all init or all uninit.  Stores from FP
> registers to memory are checked for valid [allocated] addresses,
> and copy the marking of the bits in register to the memory bytes.
> FP modes (width, rounding, etc.) and operations never are changed
> from user values.

this sounds like a great plan.

Best wishes,

Duncan.

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