Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 10:49 AM Phil Budne via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Have you looked at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/ ? > Which says: > > "All C programs can also be compiled with old-style Kernighan and > Ritchie C. However, inasmuch as I now have acce

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, at 9:28 AM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > I will definitely dig around in here. Moreover, I'll try to get it > compiled on the 3B2 emulator in its entirety so I can attempt to pass > verification. Unfortunately there is no obvious way to build the SVVS sources from th

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, at 9:49 AM, Phil Budne wrote: > Have you looked at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/ ? > Which says: > > "All C programs can also be compiled with old-style Kernighan and > Ritchie C. However, inasmuch as I now have access to only one such > old compi

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Phil Budne via cctalk
Have you looked at http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/software/ieee/ ? Which says: "All C programs can also be compiled with old-style Kernighan and Ritchie C. However, inasmuch as I now have access to only one such old compiler, with more than 35 others supporting 1989 Standard C, I

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
On Wed, Jun 12, 2019, at 9:15 AM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > is there anything in > http://bitsavers.org/bits/ATT/SysV_r3.0_SV_Ver_Suite_Source_Tape_1987 ? Wow wow wow, thanks for pointing this out (and for dumping the tape) Al. That's a great find, I wasn't aware it was on BitSavers! I wi

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/11/19 5:50 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > One of the projects I've been working on recently is adding floating point > accelerator emulation to the SIMH 3B2/400 emulator. I _think_ I've done > reasonably well, in that the simulator passes all of the accelerator > diagnostics that

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread Tor Arntsen via cctalk
On Wed, 12 Jun 2019 at 09:55, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote: > > On 2019-06-11 20:50, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: [..] > > I'd like to compile a set of IEEE-754 tests on the 3B2. Unfortunately, the > > only compiler I have ready access to on the 3B2 is AT&T's pre-ANSI C > > compiler, so

Re: In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-12 Thread emanuel stiebler via cctalk
On 2019-06-11 20:50, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > One of the projects I've been working on recently is adding floating point > accelerator emulation to the SIMH 3B2/400 emulator. I _think_ I've done > reasonably well, in that the simulator passes all of the accelerator > diagnostics that AT

In search of an ancient IEEE-754 floating point test suite

2019-06-11 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
One of the projects I've been working on recently is adding floating point accelerator emulation to the SIMH 3B2/400 emulator. I _think_ I've done reasonably well, in that the simulator passes all of the accelerator diagnostics that AT&T wrote for their own product, but frankly these tests are