Re: FP emulation patch available

[Harald Koerfgen <Harald.Koerfgen@home.ivm.de>]

On 13-Mar-00 Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

[FPU emulator crashes on R3912]

> There are two ways in which the FPU emulator is close enough
> to the hardware to be this sensitive to implementation.  One
> is the way the emulator provokes an address error exception to
> execute a delay slot instruction following a simulated branch, but
> I don't think df or fsck do any branch-on-floating-conditions.  The
> other is, of course, that it counts on getting sensible and recoverable
> coprocessor unusable exceptions.  If the R3912 does something
> funky to the processor state on a CP1 unusable fault - an event
> that it doesn't have to deal with in its principal mission
> as a Windows CE platform - the results would be much
> what you are seeing.

Good Point. Thanks, Kevin, I'll look deeper into that.

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Regards,
Harald