As far as I can tell, this has literally been here since the start of the git
history; maybe it was stubbed out because the author wasn't sure it was right?
It matches the PPC/Broadway manuals perfectly, though.
Faster, of course, since we avoid the interpreter, but also means we can
get more a more accurate timer in long blocks by adding the offset from the
start of the block to the retrieved timer. I don't know if this will actually
fix any issues, but it's more correct and a nearly-free improvement.
This time, check the address carefully beforehand, since apparently some games
do horrible things like running it on non-RAM addresses, or at the very least
virtual addresses.
A bug that seems to have been uncovered by allowing immediate-address loads.
Super Monkey Ball 2 crashes without this change -- it's possible, however, that
the game actually requires the MMU hack, since it crashed due to accessing an
address in the 0x20000000-0x3fffffff range.
Doesn't support all the FPSCR flags, just the FPRF ones.
Add PPCAnalyzer support to remove unnecessary FPRF calculations.
POV-ray benchmark with enableFPRF forced on for an extreme comparison:
Before: 1500s
After, fmul/fmadd only: 728s
After, all float: 753s
In real games that use FPRF, like F-Zero GX, FPRF previously cost a few percent
of total runtime.
Since FPRF is so much faster now, if enableFPRF is set, just do it for every
float instruction, not just fmul/fmadd like before. I don't know if this will
fix any games, but there's little good reason not to.
While we're at it, support a bunch of float load/store variants that weren't
implemented in the JIT. Might not have a big speed impact on typical games but
they're used at least a bit in povray and luabench.
694 -> 644 seconds on povray.
Thanks to magumagu's softfp experiments, we know a lot more about the Wii's
strange floating point unit than we used to. In particular, when doing a
single-precision floating point multiply (fmulsx), it rounds the right hand
side's mantissa so as to lose the low 28 bits (of the 53-bit mantissa).
Emulating this behavior in Dolphin fixes a bunch of issues with games that
require extremely precise emulation of floating point hardware, especially
game replays. Fortunately, we can do this with rather little CPU cost; just ~5
extra instructions per multiply, instead of the vast load of a pure-software
float implementation.
This doesn't make floating-point behavior at all perfect. I still suspect
fmadd rounding might not be quite right, since the Wii uses fused instructions
and Dolphin doesn't, and NaN/infinity/exception handling is probably off in
various ways... but it's definitely way better than before.
This appears to fix replays in Mario Kart Wii, Mario Kart Double Dash, and
Super Smash Brothers Brawl. I wouldn't be surprised if it fixes a bunch of
other stuff too.
The changes to instructions other than fmulsx may not be strictly necessary,
but I included them for completeness, since it feels wrong to fix some
instructions but not others, since some games we didn't test might rely on
them.
The PPC_FP conversion code can be made a lot simpler with the observation
that the only values that need to be sent through the slow x87 path are
denormals.
A whole bunch faster: 708->678 seconds on POV-RAY.
The JIT block compare code didn't set the same options for the PPCAnalyzer
as the actual JIT did, which made the PPC side of the JIT block viewer stop
at the first branch instead of the end of the block.
I have no idea what the compiler does with these, and this code probably
isn't triggered in most games, but it's probably better not to taunt the
undefined behavior demon.
1<<31 is not 2^31 because 1 is a signed int in C; this bug affected both the
JIT and interpreter quantized store implementations, though I don't know if
any games were actually affected.
Fiora