From 6e6902d0bfa700ccab5d640cb55d6867eff52547 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: lkcl Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 23:12:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- openpower/sv/rfc/ls003.mdwn | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/openpower/sv/rfc/ls003.mdwn b/openpower/sv/rfc/ls003.mdwn index 2e3158ff4..1f49463ff 100644 --- a/openpower/sv/rfc/ls003.mdwn +++ b/openpower/sv/rfc/ls003.mdwn @@ -69,8 +69,10 @@ allowing highly-efficient arbitrary-length big-integer division. **Notes and Observations**: -1. There is no need for an Rc=1 variant as VA-Form is being used. -2. There is no need for Special Registers as VA-Form is being used. +1. It is not practical to add Rc=1 variants as VA-Form is used and + there is a **pair** of results produced. +2. An overflow variant (XER.OV set) of `divmod2du` would be valuable + but VA-Form EXT004 is under severe pressure. 3. Both instructions have been present in Intel x86 for several decades. 4. Neither instruction is present in VSX: these are 128/64 whereas VSX is 128/128. -- 2.30.2