Note I do not mean the Logging window, but the console window.
It's literally rarely, if at all used, and offers less advantages over the built-in logging window (ie. it breaks on different locales: http://i.imgur.com/Cs92tQE.png)
This commit should remove all of the console logging.
Floating-point is complicated...
Some background: Denormals are floats that are too close to zero to be
stored in a normalized way (their exponent would need more bits). Since
they are stored unnormalized, they are hard to work with, even in
hardware. That's why both PowerPC and SSE can be configured to operate
in faster but non-standard-conpliant modes in which these numbers are
simply rounded ('flushed') to zero.
Internally, we do the same as the PowerPC CPU and store all floats in
double format. This means that for loading and storing singles we need a
conversion. The PowerPC CPU does this in hardware. We previously did
this using CVTSS2SD/CVTSD2SS. Unfortunately, these instructions are
considered arithmetic and therefore flush denormals to zero if non-IEEE
mode is active. This normally wouldn't be a problem since the next
arithmetic floating-point instruction would do the same anyway but as it
turns out some games actually use floating-point instructions for
copying arbitrary data.
My idea for fixing this problem was to use x87 instructions since the
x87 FPU never supported flush-to-zero and thus doesn't mangle denormals.
However, there is one more problem to deal with: SNaNs are automatically
converted to QNaNs (by setting the most-significant bit of the
fraction). I opted to fix this by manually resetting the QNaN bit of all
values with all-1s exponent.
I give up. Merging the ppc_fp branch has caused issues in numerous games
and I can't find the bug. I'm leaving this merged to enable easy
recompilation for people who would like to play games that benefit from
non-IEEE mode emulation (e.g. Starfox Assault).
MemArena mmaps the emulated memory from a file in order to get the same
mapping at multiple addresses. A file which, formerly, was located at a
static filename: it was unlinked after creation, but the open did not
use O_EXCL, so if two instances started up on the same system at just
the right time, they would get the same memory. Naturally, this caused
extremely mysterious crashes, but only in Netplay, where the game is
automatically started when the client receives a broadcast from the
server, so races are actually quite likely.
And switch to shm_open, because it fits the bill better and avoids any
issues with using /tmp.
bDAZ is now called bFlushToZero to better reflect what it's actually
used for.
I decided not to support any hardware-based flush-to-zero on systems
that don't support this for both inputs _and_ outputs. It makes the code
cleaner and the intersection of CPUs that support SSE2 but not DAZ
should be very small.
Pierre Bourdon
