4 POW{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, Fn, <Fm,#value> - power
5 RPW{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, Fn, <Fm,#value> - reverse power
6 POL{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, Fn, <Fm,#value> - polar angle (arctan2)
8 LOG{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - logarithm to base 10
9 LGN{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - logarithm to base e
10 EXP{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - exponent
11 SIN{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - sine
12 COS{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - cosine
13 TAN{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - tangent
14 ASN{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - arcsine
15 ACS{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - arccosine
16 ATN{cond}<S|D|E>{P,M,Z} Fd, <Fm,#value> - arctangent
18 These are not implemented. They are not currently issued by the compiler,
19 and are handled by routines in libc. These are not implemented by the FPA11
20 hardware, but are handled by the floating point support code. They should
21 be implemented in future versions.
23 There are a couple of ways to approach the implementation of these. One
24 method would be to use accurate table methods for these routines. I have
25 a couple of papers by S. Gal from IBM's research labs in Haifa, Israel that
26 seem to promise extreme accuracy (in the order of 99.8%) and reasonable speed.
27 These methods are used in GLIBC for some of the transcendental functions.
29 Another approach, which I know little about is CORDIC. This stands for
30 Coordinate Rotation Digital Computer, and is a method of computing
31 transcendental functions using mostly shifts and adds and a few
32 multiplications and divisions. The ARM excels at shifts and adds,
33 so such a method could be promising, but requires more research to
34 determine if it is feasible.
38 The IEEE standard defines 4 rounding modes. Round to nearest is the
39 default, but rounding to + or - infinity or round to zero are also allowed.
40 Many architectures allow the rounding mode to be specified by modifying bits
41 in a control register. Not so with the ARM FPA11 architecture. To change
42 the rounding mode one must specify it with each instruction.
44 This has made porting some benchmarks difficult. It is possible to
45 introduce such a capability into the emulator. The FPCR contains
46 bits describing the rounding mode. The emulator could be altered to
47 examine a flag, which if set forced it to ignore the rounding mode in
48 the instruction, and use the mode specified in the bits in the FPCR.
50 This would require a method of getting/setting the flag, and the bits
51 in the FPCR. This requires a kernel call in ArmLinux, as WFC/RFC are
52 supervisor only instructions. If anyone has any ideas or comments I
53 would like to hear them.
55 [NOTE: pulled out from some docs on ARM floating point, specifically
56 for the Acorn FPE, but not limited to it:
58 The floating point control register (FPCR) may only be present in some
59 implementations: it is there to control the hardware in an implementation-
60 specific manner, for example to disable the floating point system. The user
61 mode of the ARM is not permitted to use this register (since the right is
62 reserved to alter it between implementations) and the WFC and RFC
63 instructions will trap if tried in user mode.
65 Hence, the answer is yes, you could do this, but then you will run a high
66 risk of becoming isolated if and when hardware FP emulation comes out