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Re: RFC: PowerPC floating point features

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Michael Eager <eager at eagercon dot com>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 15:16:22 -0400
Subject: Re: RFC: PowerPC floating point features
References: <47F6B44B.1070200@eagercon.com> <200804050321.m353LYp5031946@makai.watson.ibm.com> <47F90792.3090509@eagercon.com>

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:25:38AM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:
> For an instruction supported on all variants (both BookE and E500)
> with a double precision FPU.

I think you have your terminology switched.  E500 is (very
approximately) an implementation of Book E; the FPR-based FPU is
usually called "classic FP" and dates back long before Book E,
at least to the 601.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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