From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:08:16 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Torbjorn Granlund <t...@gmplib.org> > Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 02:46:09 +0100 > >> David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> writes: >> >> So here is a working generic 64-bit sparc lshift.asm that seems >> to work well on all chips. >> >> I'm now going to iterate over lshiftc and rshift. >> >> I whacked off some code at the end, and generalised the resulting code >> to become a lorrshift.asm. Some additional things should be >> streamlined, see comments in the code. > > When I put this into my tree, things like "./try -s1-32 mpn_lshift" > simply hang. And I want to take this opportunity to mention that 'try' is very non-useful at times for testing newly coded routines. It seems to perform several unrelated mpn calculations during initialization before it does the primary test of the routine in question. If those initialization mpn calculations use the routine being tested, we can never end up getting to the test itself if there's a bug in the new code, resulting in either erratica behavion or a crash. This is very hard to diagnose compared to if the actual test itself failed and 'try' gave a useful diagnostic with the mpn "expected vs. obtained" dump. _______________________________________________ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel
