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FPU bug on mixed-endian CPUs

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First post, by M-HT

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Some ARM CPUs use little-endian byte ordering for integers, but use big-endian word ordering for double floating-point numbers.
This causes a bug in some FPU instructions, because dosbox assumes that byte ordering for integers and word ordering for doubles is the same.

Proposed fix is in the attachment.

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    fpufix.diff
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    16.21 KiB
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    185 downloads
    File comment
    diff against svn revision 3637
    File license
    Fair use/fair dealing exception

Reply 1 of 1, by wd

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Some ARM CPUs use little-endian byte ordering for integers, but use big-endian word ordering for double floating-point numbers.

So they were like "big endian was fun to piss off x86, now mix things to get
even more fun out of this" and did that intentionally? Nice 😀

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