> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Biener [mailto:rguent...@suse.de]
> Sent: 04 April 2013 08:46
> To: Matthew Gretton-Dann
> Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; Kyrylo Tkachov; Ramana Radhakrishnan;
> Richard Earnshaw
> Subject: Re: [PATCH][ARM] use vsel instruction for floating point
> conditional moves in ARMv8
> 
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2013, Matthew Gretton-Dann wrote:
> 
> > Would it be possible for this patch and the others Kyrylo has
> recently done
> > for the new ARMv8 AArch32 instructions to be backported to 4.8?
> >
> > In particular I'm refering to:
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00994.html (trunk
> r197052)
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00874.html (trunk
> r197051)
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00873.html (trunk
> r197046)
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00652.html (trunk
> r197040 and
> > 197041)
> 
> Those seem to be new features and not regression fixes and thus are
> not appropriate for a release branch.

The last one:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2013-03/msg00652.html
is actually a bug fix for an ICE with vcond that can be triggered
in 4.8, 4.7 and 4.6 (PR 56720) so could be worth backporting.


Thanks,
Kyrill

> 
> Richard.
> 
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> > On 25/03/13 15:21, Kyrylo Tkachov wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Ramana Radhakrishnan
> > > > Sent: 18 February 2013 11:51
> > > > To: Kyrylo Tkachov
> > > > Cc: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; Richard Earnshaw
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH][ARM] use vsel instruction for floating point
> > > > conditional moves in ARMv8
> > > >
> > > > On 01/30/13 09:24, Kyrylo Tkachov wrote:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > > This patch uses the new ARMv8 AArch32 vsel instruction to
> implement
> > > > > conditional moves of floating point numbers.
> > > > > For example, an instruction of the form:
> > > > >       vsel<cond>.f32  s0, s1, s2
> > > > > means
> > > > >       s0 := cond ? s1 : s2
> > > > >
> > > > > This can be useful, among other places, in Thumb2 because it
> doesn't
> > > > require
> > > > > an enclosing IT block.
> > > > > A small catch: The condition code used in vsel can only be one
> of
> > > > {GE, GT,
> > > > > EQ, VS}. If we want to use their negations {LT, LE, NE, VC} we
> just
> > > > flip the
> > > > > source operands.
> > > > > A new predicate is introduced that checks that the comparison
> yields
> > > > an ARM
> > > > > condition code in the set {GE, GT, EQ, VS, LT, LE, NE, VC}.
> > > > >
> > > > > New compilation tests are added. They pass on a model and no
> new
> > > > regressions
> > > > > on arm-none-eabi with qemu.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Ok for trunk?
> > > >
> > > > Ok for stage1 4.9.
> > >
> > > Hi Ramana,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the review.
> > > Re-tested on arm-none-eabi against current trunk and applied as
> r197052.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Ramana
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Kyrill
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Kyrill
> > > > >
> > > > > gcc/ChangeLog
> > > > >
> > > > > 2013-01-30  Kyrylo Tkachov  <kyrylo.tkac...@arm.com>
> > > > >
> > > > >       * config/arm/arm.md (f_sels, f_seld): New types.
> > > > >       (*cmov<mode>): New pattern.
> > > > >       * config/arm/predicates.md (arm_vsel_comparison_operator):
> New
> > > > > predicate.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
> > > > >
> > > > > 2013-01-30  Kyrylo Tkachov  <kyrylo.tkac...@arm.com>
> > > > >
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vseleqdf.c: New test.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vseleqsf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselgedf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselgesf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselgtdf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselgtsf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselledf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vsellesf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselltdf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselltsf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselnedf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselnesf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselvcdf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselvcsf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselvsdf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >       * gcc.target/arm/vselvssf.c: Likewise.
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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