The Crunch cfnegs and cfnegd instructions have a hardware bug in all silicon revisions (D0 to E2) whereby neg(0) returns 0 (not -0). See erratum 12. For ieee-correctness, and to pass another case in GCC's IEEE testsuite, we disable the instruction and do it in software unless -funsafe-math-optimizations (included in -ffast-math) is given. Martin Guy , September 2008 Index: gcc-4.2.4/gcc/config/arm/cirrus.md =================================================================== --- gcc-4.2.4.orig/gcc/config/arm/cirrus.md 2007-09-01 16:28:30.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc-4.2.4/gcc/config/arm/cirrus.md 2009-08-09 15:45:13.000000000 +0100 @@ -254,10 +254,11 @@ [(set_attr "cirrus" "normal")] ) +; Cirrus hardware bug: neg 0 -> 0 instead of -0 (define_insn "*cirrus_negsf2" [(set (match_operand:SF 0 "cirrus_fp_register" "=v") (neg:SF (match_operand:SF 1 "cirrus_fp_register" "v")))] - "TARGET_ARM && TARGET_HARD_FLOAT && TARGET_MAVERICK" + "TARGET_ARM && TARGET_HARD_FLOAT && TARGET_MAVERICK && ! HONOR_SIGNED_ZEROS (SFmode)" "cfnegs%?\\t%V0, %V1" [(set_attr "cirrus" "normal")] ) @@ -265,7 +266,7 @@ (define_insn "*cirrus_negdf2" [(set (match_operand:DF 0 "cirrus_fp_register" "=v") (neg:DF (match_operand:DF 1 "cirrus_fp_register" "v")))] - "TARGET_ARM && TARGET_HARD_FLOAT && TARGET_MAVERICK" + "TARGET_ARM && TARGET_HARD_FLOAT && TARGET_MAVERICK && ! HONOR_SIGNED_ZEROS (DFmode)" "cfnegd%?\\t%V0, %V1" [(set_attr "cirrus" "normal")] )