From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar@cygnus.co.uk>
To: rth@cygnus.com
Cc: amylaar@cygnus.co.uk, wilson@cygnus.com, rth@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: alpha failure on 920810-1
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 10:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199804301651.RAA14133@phal.cygnus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980429225753.08852@dot.cygnus.com>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 10:13:05PM +0100, Joern Rennecke wrote:
> > If it tests only if all bits are zero, I think we should express this
> > as a DImode equality test to zero:
> >
> > (set (reg:DF 1)
> > (eq:DF (reg:DF 2) (reg:DF 3)))
> > (set (reg:DF 4)
> > (if_then_else:DF (eq (subreg:DI (reg:DF 1) 0)
> > (const_int 0))
> > (reg:DF 5)
> > (reg:DF 4)))
>
> Unfortunately that is not the whole truth. I read the fine print
> last night and found that it handles -0.0 specially, so it is not
> really a DImode compare. Which is unfortunate, since I'd like to
> be able to do real DImode comparisons with them...
If that is the case, what is the problem? After all, this is an
equality comparison, and if a NaN is found unequal because it is
unequal to everything, or becuase it is unequal to 0, doesn't really matter,
does it?
Or are you missing signals when you are comparing signaling NaNs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-04-30 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-04-27 1:41 Richard Henderson
1998-04-27 8:47 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-04-27 13:59 ` Richard Henderson
1998-04-28 22:14 ` Jim Wilson
1998-04-29 2:20 ` Richard Henderson
1998-04-29 12:27 ` Jim Wilson
1998-04-29 16:08 ` Joern Rennecke
1998-04-29 22:57 ` Richard Henderson
1998-04-30 10:25 ` Joern Rennecke [this message]
1998-04-30 13:20 ` Richard Henderson
1998-04-30 22:29 ` Richard Henderson
1998-05-08 16:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-05-09 2:05 ` Richard Henderson
1998-05-06 23:49 ` Jeffrey A Law
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