Re: [Qemu-devel] SSE 'maxps' instruction bug?

[Rob Landley]

On Friday 16 March 2007 2:10 pm, Julian Seward wrote:
> On Friday 16 March 2007 18:07, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:21 pm, Julian Seward wrote:
> > > > 0.9.0, or that the compiler/host combination used to build the qemu
> > > > binary Julian is running generated bad code for the float compares.
> > >
> > > I used gcc 3.4.6 bootstrapped as normal ('make bootstrap; make install')
> > > on a 64-bit machine.  If it is qemu generating bad code due to 
variations
> > > in gcc behaviour, that's another argument in favour of scrapping the gcc
> > > 3.X based backend and using a self contained, handwritten insn selector
> > > and register allocator.
> >
> > Are you referring to https://nowt.dyndns.org/ or something else?
> 
> I was referring to an idea, of which the nowt thing is an implementation.
> I'm not aware of any other such backends to qemu.

That's Paul Brook's QOPS thing that gets discussed here from time to time.  
There are vague plans to switch over to that soonish.

Rob
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