The first option is a flag that enables MPC601 (POWER) instructions for CPUs that are not MPC601.
This can be useful for the following reasons:
1) To produce results similar to classic Mac OS which emulates MPC601 instructions on CPUs that don't implement MPC601 instructions. This option is used to compare the risu traces produced in Mac OS 9 on a G3 or G4 with DPPC.
2) May increase performance in apps that use POWER instructions on emulated machines with CPUs that are not MPC601. It is not known if any such apps exist but there could be since Apple included MPC601 emulation in classic Mac OS.
genppctests.py
- Fix incorrect bits for some floating-point instruction opcodes or fields.
- Use separate register for FP results like DolphinPPCTests does.
- Remove extra FMULS.
- Use a regular expression for parsing ppcfloattest.txt. Don't parse the values, just put them in the output ppcloattests.csv file.
ppcfloattest.txt
- Clear crf0 and crf7 because we only care about crf1.
- Use values from DolphinPPCTests (0.0, 0.5, 1.0, 3.5, DBL_MAX, FLT_MAX, 2.4679999352, 4.9359998704, etc.). Some of the values were rounded. This will un-round them. Specify snan or qnan instead of nan.
- One of the FCMPO and FCMPU tests had qnan instead of snan input values.
ppcfloattest.csv
- Regenerate this file using the updated genppctests.py which uses the updated ppcfloattest.txt.
ppctests
- Update double_from_string to be able to parse the new values (snan, qnan, FLT_MAX, DBL_MAX).
