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[MIPS] Change madd/maddu/msub/msubu/mult/multu to DSP rev1

Richard Sandiford rdsandiford@googlemail.com
Thu Oct 28 12:17:00 GMT 2010 
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:
>> > mips64-linux still has:
>> > FAIL: ld-mips-elf/no-shared-1-n64
>> > FAIL: PIC and non-PIC test 6 (n64 executable)
>> > FAIL: GOT dump (readelf -A) test 2
>> 
>> These were caused by Maciej's opcodes patch, so should be fixed soon.
>> It seems the testsuite did catch the error after all.
>
>  Ouch, you've found an incoherence in my test methodology. :(  I disabled 
> LD tests during development to speed things up, but then forgot to 
> reenable them for final evaluation.  Sorry about that -- I'll fix things 
> up ASAP.

No problem.  I think we've all been there :-)  On the plus side,
it means your patch doesn't in fact need a testcase, unless you're
keen to add one (or have written one already).

Richard
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