Re: gcc generates invalid i386 fmulp

["Michael L. Galbraith" <mikeg@weiden.de>]

On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Alan Modra wrote:

> >hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu):
> > > For anyone who's interested, the gas patches can be found at
> > > ftp://mullet.levels.unisa.edu.au/private/teabag/gas-980407-alan.diff.gz
> > > They should apply to binutils-2.9 without problems too.
> > > 
> > > The gcc problem (found by mikeg@weiden.de (Michael L. Galbraith)),
> > > when compiling glibc2 is that gcc will generate instructions like
> > > 	`fsubp %st(1),%st'
> > > 
> > 
> > Can you show me a small test case please? It is very tricky. Here are
> > the ChangeLog entries:
> > [deleted]
> 
> Yes, I know it's tricky.  Basically, Unixware got their assembler
> wrong, and we're stuck with an inconsistent syntax.  A test case for
> fmulp is glibc-2.0.6/sysdeps/libm-ieee754/s_nextafterf.c.  I put the
> preprocessed file at
> ftp://mullet.levels.unisa.edu.au/private/teabag/s_nextafterf.i
> Mike Galbraith may be able to give you a .i file for the fsubp case;
> I didn't have the right version of glibc.
> 

I can generate a .i file if H.J wants it, but the fsubp %st(1), %st
instances are human generated. (3 .S files)

	-Mike