[PATCH] [mips][msa] Removed fcge, fcgt, fsge, fsgt

Hal Finkel hfinkel at anl.gov
Mon Aug 19 02:11:00 PDT 2013


----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> There's no existing hardware that supported these instructions. Some
> of our unreleased software models supported them but these have also
> been updated to the match the published version of the MSA spec.

Sounds good. Personally, I think that you should note that somehow in the commit log (maybe call it a draft spec) just so that bystanders understand what's going on.

 -Hal

> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hal Finkel [mailto:hfinkel at anl.gov]
> > Sent: 16 August 2013 17:46
> > To: Daniel Sanders
> > Cc: llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu; Jack Carter
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] [mips][msa] Removed fcge, fcgt, fsge, fsgt
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Removed support for fcge, fcgt, fsge, and fsgt. These were
> > > present in
> > > older versions of the spec but were removed in r1.04.
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, are you removing support for instructions that
> > are
> > implemented in current in-production hardware?
> > 
> >  -Hal
> > 
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Daniel Sanders
> > >
> > > Leading Software Design Engineer, MIPS Processor IP
> > >
> > > Imagination Technologies Limited
> > >
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> > >
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> > --
> > Hal Finkel
> > Assistant Computational Scientist
> > Leadership Computing Facility
> > Argonne National Laboratory
> 

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Hal Finkel
Assistant Computational Scientist
Leadership Computing Facility
Argonne National Laboratory



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