On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:15 -0700, davidastro wrote: > I found a bug when using the function __div64_32 in assembly in a 32 bit ppc > architecture unit. > > I tried the numbers 55834565048000000 for the dividend and 4294967079 for > the divisor. When passing these two numbers to the function __div64_32, I > had a software lock. I searched for possible patches online and in different > forums but I could not find anything related to the assembly implementation > to this function (I would have to apologize if somebody already found a fix > :-) ). > > Anyway, when analyzing the assembly code, I found out with gdb the problem. > I am not an expert in ppc architecture but I read the documentation and I am > pretty sure I solved the issue (I have been testing for couple of days using > random 64 to 32 number combinations with good results). > > Who or Where should I post the fix to be reviewed.
Here is fine :-) Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
