Re: [PATCH v6 06/13] ARC: hardware floating point support

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On 05/06/2020 01:44, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> On 5/29/20 4:50 PM, Vineet Gupta via Libc-alpha wrote:
>>>> Although this code follow other architectures, I think it woudl be better
>>>> to move forward a macro that emulates function calls and use proper
>>>> static inline function instead for _FPU_* (as for get-rounding-mode.h).
>>> OK. do you have a preference for names, existing upper case names OK ?
>> Something like below ?
>>
>> +# define _FPU_FPSR_FWE		0x80000000
>> +
>> -#  define _FPU_GETCW(cw) __asm__ volatile ("lr %0, [0x300]" : "=r" (cw))
>> -#  define _FPU_SETCW(cw) __asm__ volatile ("sr %0, [0x300]" : : "r" (cw))
>> +static inline unsigned int arc_fpu_getcw(void)
>> +{
>> +  unsigned int cw;
>> +  __asm__ volatile ("lr %0, [0x300]" : "=r" (cw));
>> +  return cw;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static inline void arc_fpu_setcw(unsigned int cw)
>> +{
>> +  __asm__ volatile ("sr %0, [0x300]" : : "r" (cw));
>> +}
> 
> It seems there is more discussiosn to be had here. Can we just punt on this
> specific item and keep the status quo macros please. We are heading towards july
> and I'd rather have the port go in this cycle !

I don't have a strong opinion here, it was more a suggestion. It seems
to follow other architectures, although at least alpha does not 
provide the _FPU_GETCW macro.  Another option would to just
move this definition to an internal header as well.

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