[libre-riscv-dev] Power ISA v3.1 bug - parityw

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Wednesday, May 27, 2020, Paul Mackerras <paulus at ozlabs.org> wrote:

>
> > The description of "least significant bit in each byte" leads me to
> believe
> > that RS[i%8 + 7] should really be RS[i*8+7]. This is also how it is
> > implemented in microwatt
>
> The IBM Power architects have confirmed that it should be
> multiplication rather than remainder, i.e. RS[i*8+7] as you suggest.


super.  i can see from the revisions (3.0B -> 3.1B) that it was copied from
a divmod algorithm.

thanks paul.

l.



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