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Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] powerpc64le: Enable float128
* Peter Bergner:
> On 6/27/17 1:42 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 06/27/2017 05:00 PM, Peter Bergner wrote:
>>> We have a __builtin_cpu_supports() version that can test for float128, so
>>> why can't we use the following? On older systems (ie, older glibcs),
>>> the builtin will expand to false, which is conservatively correct.
>>
>>> +#define SW_OR_HW(SW, HW) (__builtin_cpu_supports ("ieee128") ? HW : SW)
>>
>> How is that implemented? Does it call into the kernel or glibc, too?
>
> No. It reads a bit mask stored in the TCB which glibc has initialized
> for us long before main() is called:
>
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-12/msg00041.html
>
> ..so all that is generated is a load followed by a masking operation:
>
> bergner@pike:~$ cat float128.c
> int
> float128 (void)
> {
> return __builtin_cpu_supports ("ieee128");
> }
> bergner@pike:~$ gcc -O2 -S float128.c
> bergner@pike:~$ cat float128.s
> [snip]
> float128:
> lwz 3,-28776(13)
> rldicl 3,3,42,63
> blr
Nice. I guess the next question is: what would ensure that this code
only runs on a glibc which sets up the TCB in the expected way? Is
there a symbol reference which prevents that?
__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform isn't that symbol, as far as I
can tell.