Cortex-A15 vfnma/vfnms test patch

amol pise amolpise15@gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 05:04:00 GMT 2013


Dear All,

Please let me know the patch is OK for trunk ?

Thank You,
Amol Pise

On 1/21/13, amol pise <amolpise15@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am working on Cortex-A15 using latest GCC toolchain.
> As we know that VFPv4 and SIMDv2 are the Cortex-A15 CPU Features,
> so, compared to VFPv3/ SIMDv1, in VFPv4/SIMDv2 has following
> additional instruction support
>  * VFMA, VFMS - Fused multiply accumulate, Fused multiply subtract.
>  * VFNMA, VFNMS - Fused multiply accumulate with negation, Fused
> multiply subtract with negation.
>
> To check whether these instructions are generated or not. I took  the
> GCC-4.8  branch (snapshot) from FSF.
>
> I noticed there are following testcases available for  VFMA, VFMS
> instructions
>  * gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/neon-vfma-1.c
>  * gcc/testsuite/gcc.target/arm/neon-vfms-1.c
>
> But for the VFNMA, VFNMS  instructions there are no test case
> available. So I have created the patch to test these instruction.
> Please find the attached patch
>
> I have tested these instruction with GCC and these instructions are
> generated.
> Please review and marge this test support patch in gcc main trunk.
>
> Thank You,
> Amol Pise
>



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