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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/m68k: Change fpu_rom from const static a


From: Laurent Vivier
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/m68k: Change fpu_rom from const static array to switch
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2017 18:38:32 +0200
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Le 04/09/2017 à 18:38, Kamil Rytarowski a écrit :
> On 04.09.2017 18:17, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 4 September 2017 at 16:53, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Le 04/09/2017 à 17:02, Peter Maydell a écrit :
>>>> On 4 September 2017 at 15:09, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> You can:
>>>>>
>>>>> either replace the "#define floatx80_pi make_floatx80(...)" by a "const
>>>>> floatx80 floatx80_pi = make_floatx80_init(...)"
>>>>>
>>>>> or replace all the macros in the m68k/fpu_helper.c array by
>>>>> make_floatx80_init(...)
>>>>
>>>> Taking a step back, what's different about floatx80 and float12
>>>> that means they need separate _init and non-init versions of
>>>> the macros, when for float16/float32/float64 we instead have
>>>> #define make_float32(x) __extension__ ({ float32 f32_val = {x}; f32_val; })
>>>> #define const_float32(x) { x }
>>>
>>> floatx80/float128 are structureq while float16/float32/float64 are
>>> native data types.
>>
>> If USE_SOFTFLOAT_STRUCT_TYPES is defined then float16/32/64 are
>> also struct types and use the make_ and const_ macros as above.
>>
>> (We should check whether USE_SOFTFLOAT_STRUCT_TYPES still builds,
>> it tends to bitrot. If it does then maybe we should use it by default
>> since gcc 3 is now just a memory...)
>>
> 
> USE_SOFTFLOAT_STRUCT_TYPES breaks for me on SmartOS:
> 
> migration/vmstate-types.c: In function 'put_float64':
> migration/vmstate-types.c:430:5: error: conversion to non-scalar type
> requested
> 
>>>> ? Could we move to consistency for the macro naming we're using?
>>>
>>> Do you mean "s/make_floatx80_init/const_floatx80/"?
>>
>> Yes (and the same implementation would be nice too).
>>
> 
> I will push my patch as is and later it can be refactored by a
> maintainer. Is this fine?
> 
> https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc-wip/blob/master/qemu-git/patches/patch-target_m68k_fpu__helper.c
> 

If Peter agrees, the patch is good for me as is: I never liked the mix
of macros and values in this array. Send it to the list, I will put it
in my next pull request.

Thanks,
Laurent


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