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Re: Two questions about testing.
- To: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Two questions about testing.
- From: Jesper Skov <jskov at redhat dot com>
- Date: 07 Apr 2000 15:36:46 +0200
- Cc: Sergei Organov <osv at javad dot ru>, ecos-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Simon FitzMaurice <sdf at redhat dot co dot uk>
- References: <87ya6rxd6p.fsf@osv.javad.ru> <38ECF80A.7928FD4C@redhat.co.uk>
>>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.co.uk> writes:
Jonathan> Sergei Organov wrote:
>> Well, I've implemented FPU support in the PowerPC HAL (using MIPS
>> FPU support as template). Now I'd like to test it.
>>
>> 1. Are there any tests that will likely to fail if something is
>> broken in the HAL FPU? How do you test MIPS FPU support?
Jonathan> Math library tests? Some stdio tests also use
Jonathan> floating-point.
Jonathan> If you wanted to write and contribute some new tests,
Jonathan> naturally we'd be grateful :-).
That would be nice. Specifically, with FPU support we'd want to test
that nothing breaks if multiple threads are sharing the FPU. Most of
the libm tests only use a single thread, so they wouldn't be exercise
the HAL FPU context switch code very well.
Jesper