[patch] ARM vclt broken

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Jan 4 04:52:00 GMT 2007


Hi Paul/ Daniel,

>>> The ARM NEON vclt and vcle instructions are aliases for vcgt and vcge
>>> respectively.
>> Err, isn't that the other way around ?  Ie vclt is an alias for vcge and
>> vcle is an alias for vcgt ?
> Nope - in fact that's how everyone seems to get these particular
> instructions wrong.  "a < b" is "!(a >= b)", but there's an extra
> negation, so you can't use the same instruction for both.  However
> "a < b" is "b > a", so by swapping operands, you can use the same
> instruction.
>
> If I'm remembering Paul's explanation correctly, then binutils
> currently has this reversed and tries to encode "a > b" as "b <= a".

Ah!  Thanks for the explanation.  You know, a comment explaining this in 
the code might not go amiss...

Cheers
   Nick



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