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simonmar committed Jan 7, 2011
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13 changes: 7 additions & 6 deletions compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs
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{-
MORE FLOATING POINT MUSINGS...
Note [x86 Floating point precision]
Intel's internal floating point registers are by default 80 bit
extended precision. This means that all operations done on values in
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128 bit slot (so we get alignment). We spill at 80-bits and ignore
the alignment problems.
In the future, we'll use the SSE registers for floating point. This
requires a CPU that supports SSE2 (ordinary SSE only supports 32 bit
precision float ops), which means P4 or Xeon and above. Using SSE
will solve all these problems, because the SSE registers use fixed 32
bit or 64 bit precision.
In the future [edit: now available in GHC 7.0.1, with the -msse2
flag], we'll use the SSE registers for floating point. This requires
a CPU that supports SSE2 (ordinary SSE only supports 32 bit precision
float ops), which means P4 or Xeon and above. Using SSE will solve
all these problems, because the SSE registers use fixed 32 bit or 64
bit precision.
--SDM 1/2003
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions rts/RtsStartup.c
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static int hs_init_count = 0;

/* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Initialise floating point unit on x86 (currently disabled. why?)
(see comment in ghc/compiler/nativeGen/MachInstrs.lhs).
Initialise floating point unit on x86 (currently disabled; See Note
[x86 Floating point precision] in compiler/nativeGen/X86/Instr.hs)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- */

#define X86_INIT_FPU 0
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