[REVIEW ONLY 4/4] RISC-V: Tentative ".bfloat16" assembly support

[Nelson Chu]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 2:06 PM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:

> On 14.06.2024 06:14, Nelson Chu wrote:
> > Since risc-v assembler supported bf16 instructions recently, just make
> sure
> > that - should we still need this patch to support the .bfloat16
> directive?
> > Seems arm32 still support bfloat instructions but without supporting the
> > .bfloat16 directive.
>
> Independent of what other architectures do, I think the assembler should
> have,
> at least as far as feasible, directives to generate the data the insns it
> supports operate on. That said, I can pretty clearly see support for
> .bfloat16
> also in tc-arm.c (much like tc-aarch64.c and tc-i386.c). Are you suggesting
> it's there but broken?
>

No, I just see FLT_CHARS there don't have `b'.
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