Subject: Re: regress/lib/libc/ieeefp/except
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Jeff Smith <jeffs@geocast.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 05/12/2000 09:23:07
Toru Nishimura wrote:
> 
> Friends,
> 
> I got a kernel panic when tried regress/lib/libc/ieeefp/except/except
> program with my personal DECstation which supposedly has R3000A
> (single chip with combined FPA) inside.  Message was 'kernel touched
> FPA' and faulting address did not make sense (around ast() address).
> 
> Does anyone out there have similar fatality?  How about R4000
> descenders?  (CPU behaves differently.)

This failed on our mips R5K platform as well.  A while I worked
on getting this to work on our oldish snap of NetBSD.  I will look
back and see what the changes were.  Some of them have been put
back I believe, but maybe not all of them.

I will send the patch directly to you to try.

I also did more mips2 instructions for fp.S and we build most
stuff -mips2.  The latest was the sqrt emulation for denorms,
which I believe is not in -current.

jeffs