[RTEMS Project] #1800: PowerPC: IEEE 754 conformance of e200/e500 embedded floating point unit

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#1800: PowerPC: IEEE 754 conformance of e200/e500 embedded floating point unit
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 Reporter:  sebastian.huber  |       Owner:  sebastian.huber
     Type:  defect           |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  4.11
Component:  bsps             |     Version:  HEAD
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:                   |
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Changes (by sebastian.huber):

 * status:  assigned => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Old description:

> For full IEEE 754 conformance of the e200 and e500 embedded floating
> point unit we need software support.  This consists of an exception
> handler that decodes the offending instruction and provides the results
> via a software floating point implementation.
>
> The suggested software floating point library is:
>
> http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html

New description:

 For full IEEE 754 conformance of the e200 and e500 embedded floating point
 unit we need software support.  This consists of an exception handler that
 decodes the offending instruction and provides the results via a software
 floating point implementation.

 The suggested software floating point library is:

 http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/SoftFloat.html

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Comment:

 No demand to fix this from the users in the last four years.

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