Re: floating point test suite ?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 10:08:02PM -0400, mouse%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
> > thanks, this is a good starting point. MIPS floating point emulation
> > is definitively brocken: [...]
> 
> > this needs to be investigated, but I know ~nothing about floating
> > point arithmetic, I'll need to find some documentation about this
> > before doing any serious work.
> 
> Well, I know something about floating point.  I don't think any of my
> currently-live machines are MIPS, though; I'd need either access to
> such a box or the resources (mostly time) to resurrect one of mine.

There are emulators lying around; I never used one of these myself
though, so I can't give advices.

> 
> I'll also see if I can figure out enough of pkgsrc to pick up
> benchmarks/paranoia and see how much of a pain it is to make it build.

this one is easy:
ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/distfiles/paranoia.c
gcc paranoia.c
./a.out

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