[libre-riscv-dev] daily kan-ban update 08jul2020

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:51 AM Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> today:
> finished adding support for mul* madd* and additional div* variants to
> power-instruction-analyzer
> the python bindings pass all tests

fantastic.  the code's really clear so can be used to do a side-by-side review

> discovered I was accidentally running the code without using any
> native inline-assembly because I forgot to enable the native_instrs
> feature.

doh :)

> turns out POWER9 is weird,

yes :)

> but not in the same way as qemu

sigh.  it may be a good idea to raise a bugreport about the overflow
case.  the qemu team might want to have strict compliance even with
undefined cases as these tend to catch people out when it comes to
unusual interoperability uses.

l.