[PATCH] Force DFP function args into FP registers per the ABI

Peter Bergner bergner@vnet.ibm.com
Sat Feb 24 07:03:00 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 21:55 +0100, Uros Bizjak wrote:
> What a design choice for a new processor... Isn't this similar to 
> infamous x87, where all input operands are implicitly extended to 80bit 
> XFmode? I'm sure everybody will love this.

This isn't "new".  PowerPC has always acted this way wrt binary FP.

Peter





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