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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: lkml List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: math-emu issue with fp divide
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:38:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9BECB10D-536E-4242-A2F5-6E1EF8CBDB40@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)

David,

You seem to be the last person to touch the math-emu code in the  
kernel so I figured you might have some insights.  I'm trying to move  
the powerpc math-emu code to use the include/math-emu bits.

In doing so I've been using TestFloat to see how good or bad we are  
doing.  For the most part the current math-emu code that PPC uses has  
a number of issues that the code in include/math-emu seems to solve  
(plus bugs we've had for ever that no one every realized).

Anyways, I've come across a case that we are flagging underflow and  
inexact because we think we have a denormalized result from a double  
precision divide:

000.FFFFFFFFFFFFF / 3FE.FFFFFFFFFFFFE
	soft: 001.0000000000000 .....  syst: 001.0000000000000 ...ux

What it looks like is the results out of FP_DIV_D are:

D:
sign:	  0
mantissa: 01000000 00000000
exp:	 -1023 (0)

The problem seems like we aren't normalizing the result and bumping  
the exp.  So I was wondering if you had any idea if FP_DIV_D should be  
doing that or if when we call FP_PACK_DP/_FP_PACK_CANONICAL if that  
could should be doing it.

thanks

- k

             reply	other threads:[~2008-06-04 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04 20:38 Kumar Gala [this message]
2008-06-04 21:37 ` David Miller
2008-06-04 21:42 ` Joseph S. Myers
2008-06-04 21:49   ` David Miller
2008-06-05 13:38     ` Kumar Gala
2008-06-13  4:24       ` David Miller
2008-06-13 15:49         ` Kumar Gala
2008-06-27 13:48         ` Kumar Gala
2008-06-27 22:54           ` David Miller
2008-06-27 14:15         ` Kumar Gala
2008-10-22  5:15           ` David Miller

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