Re: Alpha/Linux FP denormal processing

2000-09-19 Thread Richard Henderson
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 09:52:15AM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote: > > Instead of *= 0.5, try /= 2.0 > > Yes indeed you've found a bug in the kernel's FP emulation. > I'll see about fixing it. Rather than fix the old udiv128 function, which was trying to do 128/128 bit division, I've pulled in a

Re: Alpha/Linux FP denormal processing

2000-09-21 Thread Richard Henderson
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:58:06PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > Is this a serious patch submission or just a call for testing? If the > former, I need to cook up the sparc bits once it gets in :-) Huh? A serious patch submission, since it fixes a bug. Why would you need to cook up any sparc

Re: Alpha/Linux FP denormal processing

2000-09-21 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 14:17:12 -0700 From: Richard Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Why would you need to cook up any sparc bits? Jakub already has a proper implementaion of qrnnd for sparc... Nevermind, brain fart. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this

Re: Alpha/Linux FP denormal processing

2000-09-19 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 19 Sep 2000 19:23:42 -0700 From: Richard Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rather than fix the old udiv128 function, which was trying to do 128/128 bit division, I've pulled in a subroutine from libgcc that does 128/64 bit division, which is all we need here. So i