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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat


From: Aurelien Jarno
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix NaN handling in softfloat
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 20:13:55 +0100
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Thiemo Seufer a écrit :
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The current softfloat implementation changes qNaN into sNaN when 
>> converting between formats, for no reason. The attached patch fixes
>> that.
> 
> Did you take into account that MIPS and PA-RISC have the signalling
> bit inverted to the rest of the world?

Oh didn't know about that! Anyway that doesn't change anything, as the
patch simply copy parts of the mantissa from one format to another.

That just means on other architectures, sNaN are changed into qNaN.


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