* More info: EGCS-971016 on Solaris2.5/UltraSparc
@ 1997-10-20 15:30 Fred Richardson
1997-10-20 18:57 ` John Carr
1997-10-21 0:30 ` Jakub Jelinek
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From: Fred Richardson @ 1997-10-20 15:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: egcs
Hi-
I ran a bunch of tests with the sun CC compiler and I found out that
the only significant feature (for my platform) that their compiler
uses that's not in EGCS (yet) is is the -fns option:
-fns Turn on the SPARC nonstandard floating-point mode (SPARC)
Does anyone know what this is? I don't know if this is a trivial
thing or a tricky one.
-Fred
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread* Re: More info: EGCS-971016 on Solaris2.5/UltraSparc
1997-10-20 15:30 More info: EGCS-971016 on Solaris2.5/UltraSparc Fred Richardson
@ 1997-10-20 18:57 ` John Carr
1997-10-21 0:30 ` Jakub Jelinek
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From: John Carr @ 1997-10-20 18:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: frichard; +Cc: egcs
> -fns Turn on the SPARC nonstandard floating-point mode (SPARC)
>
> Does anyone know what this is? I don't know if this is a trivial
> thing or a tricky one.
The crt1.o that comes with the Sun compiler checks a global symbol
__fsr_init_value and uses it to set %fsr. The compiler sets the
symbol (in the .o file defining main?) when -fns is used. It would be
easy to change gcc and its crt*.o to do the same.
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* Re: More info: EGCS-971016 on Solaris2.5/UltraSparc
1997-10-20 15:30 More info: EGCS-971016 on Solaris2.5/UltraSparc Fred Richardson
1997-10-20 18:57 ` John Carr
@ 1997-10-21 0:30 ` Jakub Jelinek
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From: Jakub Jelinek @ 1997-10-21 0:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: frichard; +Cc: egcs
> Hi-
>
> I ran a bunch of tests with the sun CC compiler and I found out that
> the only significant feature (for my platform) that their compiler
> uses that's not in EGCS (yet) is is the -fns option:
>
> -fns Turn on the SPARC nonstandard floating-point mode (SPARC)
>
> Does anyone know what this is? I don't know if this is a trivial
> thing or a tricky one.
The FPU on the UltraSPARC is not working with subnormal operands and/or
results. Instead of that, it traps to the operating system, so that the
results can be correct according to IEEE754. That may be slow, so NS says
that all subnormal operands and all subnormal results will be replaced by
zeros with the same sign (and if requested IEEE754 inexact/underflow traps
will be signalled).
I'm not 100% sure what does the -fns option in SunPRO exactly, probably it
just chooses different startup files and maybe makes some differences in the
code. Could you by change sent me privately assembly output of some short
FPU intensive program compiled with and without -fns?
Cheers,
Jakub
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