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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Doug Rabson
5b38fe900d Implement 'software completion' for floating point arithmetic. On the
alpha, operations involving non-finite numbers or denormalised numbers
or operations which should generate such numbers will cause an arithmetic
exception.  For programs which follow some strict code generation rules,
the kernel trap handler can then 'complete' the operation by emulating
the faulting instruction.

To use software completion, a program must be compiled with the arguments
'-mtrap-precision=i' and '-mfp-trap-mode=su' or '-mfp-trap-mode=sui'.
Programs compiled in this way can use non-finite and denormalised numbers
at the expense of slightly less efficient code generation of floating
point instructions.  Programs not compiled with these options will receive
a SIGFPE signal when non-finite or denormalised numbers are used or
generated.

Reviewed by: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
1998-12-04 10:52:48 +00:00
John Birrell
74712ec974 Import NetBSD/Alpha headers needed to get the FreeBSD userland to compile
(and even run). These files don't necessarily make sense for a
FreeBSD/Alpha kernel build. That will come later and these files
will be changed accordingly.
1998-03-09 05:43:16 +00:00