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| From: | Richard Henderson |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] target-ppc/fpu_helper.c: Use C99 code to speed up floating point unit |
| Date: | Sat, 3 Dec 2016 17:32:44 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 |
On 12/03/2016 09:07 AM, Programmingkid wrote:
Yes it would be. The commit message never stated why he wanted to switch to floating point softfloat routines. These are my guesses:
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- Different hosts produced different results and instead wanted consistency?
This is the correct answer. There are quite a lot of differences between floating point across different cpus. Which means that it's actually rare that the host and guest floating point are exactly alike.
r~
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