[J-core] Fwd: ISA manual for SH-2

[Fabjan Sukalia]

FIPR and FTRV can have different results as when computed with primitive
operations like fadd or fmul. This would not be IEEE-conform. Per default
gcc avoids such instructions and some flags like -O3 allow the use of
non-conform operations. One has to read through the gcc sources to see why
it doesn't use them in your cases.

For the other instructions, I have no idea. Again, the gcc source code
might bring us more answers.

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Fabjan

2017-05-26 13:50 GMT+02:00 BGB <cr88192 at gmail.com>:

> On 5/26/2017 4:01 AM, D. Jeff Dionne wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2017, at 16:31, Francisco Javier Bizcocho Antúnez <
> volkovdablo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> BGB could you describe a bit more which instructions from SH4 FPU were not
> used by C compiler?.
>
>
> I'm not sure what BGB's compiler does with the FPU, but basically either
> GCC or libgcc.a / libm.a likely needs to have the option to use basically
> all of the SH3 and later FPU instructions in order to achieve the best
> possible floating point performance.   SH4 also has some vector
> instructions, which are useful for things like signal processing, which
> likely are not easy for a new compiler to use..
>
>
> my comment was actually based on observations from GCC, not on my compiler
> (though, I can't say whether this also holds for math code in the C
> libraries).
>
> as for which instructions I had seen going unused:
> * FIPR, or basically the dot-product of two vectors.
> * FTRV, which does a partial matrix multiply.
> * FLDI0, FLDI1: which load float constants of 0.0 and 1.0
> ** I don't actually know why GCC doesn't use them (it seems to always load
> them from memory).
> ** my compiler may use them.
> * FMAC: basically does a multiply-accumulate with floats.
> ** FRn=FRn+FR0*FRm
> * FSCHG: inverts FPSCR.SZ
> ** GCC seems to pretty much never set SZ in my tests
> *** though these tests were limited to SH4 in little-endian mode.
>
> similarly, the XF and XD registers were not used by GCC in my tests (only
> FRn and DRn).
>
> the FIPR, FTRV, and XF/XD registers were dropped from SH2A.
> * the use of these registers also seems to be undefined in the C ABI.
>
>
> in my FPU+SIMD extensions for my BJX1 extensions:
> * XF/XD registers have been partially redubbed as FR16..FR31 and
> odd-numbered DRn registers.
> * I made them freely usable by normal arithmetic instructions
> ** (though directly using FR16-FR31 requires use of 32-bit I-forms).
> * they are also used in composing vectors.
>
>
> Also I have another question related with the J2 cores. Do you guys think
> is possible to exchange the SH2 cores present in the Sega Saturn for to
> FPGAs with J2 cores on them?.
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> so they are pin-compatible? interesting.
>
> This is due of the lack of JTAG capabilities of the original SH2 cores, I
> want to test if I could use this configuration to develop some software
> that could run later on retail Sega Saturn machines.
>
>
> exchange in circuit is a bit hard, you likely want to emulate large parts
> (basically building a functional equivalent) in FPGA.   There was great
> interest in doing this by some of the original engineers here in Japan, but
> the project never seems to have gotten off the ground (building products
> for customers with J2 has been a priority).
>
>
> makes sense.
>
>
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