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Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [9 of 15]
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- To: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 08:00:51 +0200
- Subject: Re: PowerPC floating point little-endian [9 of 15]
- References: <20130710012435 dot GN2602 at bubble dot grove dot modra dot org> <20130710012933 dot GV2602 at bubble dot grove dot modra dot org>
On 07/10/2013 03:29 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> This works around the fact that vsx is disabled in current
> little-endian gcc. Also, float constants take 4 bytes in memory
> vs. 16 bytes for vector constants, and we don't need to write one lot
> of masks for double (register format) and another for float (mem
> format).
>
> 2013-07-10 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
>
> * sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/s_float_bitwise.h (__float_and_test28): Don't
> use vector int constants.
> (__float_and_test24, __float_and8, __float_get_exp): Likewise.
Looks fine to me.
Btw. for the PowerPC bits, one of the other PowerPC maintainers should
review this as well,
Andreas
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