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Re: PPro patch #3
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: PPro patch #3
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 02:33:37 -0600
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <m0yhyTH-000268C@ocean.lucon.org>you write:
> > "Here is a patch to fix unordered comparison for PPro." tells me
> > almost nothing.
> >
>
> Please get PPro/II reference manual and check out fcomi. You will see
> PPro/II cannot handle unordered comparison directly which sets CC in a
> way compatible with integer comparison. BTW, Jim may know it since it
> is he who disabled fcomi, which hides the bug.
I don't have a ppro manual here.
Furthermore, this is precisely the kind of thing I want you to explain.
You already know the issues, I don't. I could get a manual, read it
and I might understand all the issues, then again I might not. Why
take the chance when you already know what issue we're trying to
solve?
jeff