[Libre-soc-bugs] [Bug 448] MUL pipeline unit tests

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https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448

--- Comment #53 from Cole Poirier <colepoirier at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton from comment #52)
> (In reply to Cole Poirier from comment #51)
> > I updated (and pushed) mulli to what I thought would be the way to do it but
> > I know I'm still doing it wrong... because the tests only have register 'ra'
> > and it's always zero. 
> 
> you're looking at the output and finding discrepancies from expected
> behaviour.  good.

Learning.

> > I don't know how to resolve this from looking at
> > addi's use in the other unit tests.
> 
>  choice = random.choice(test_values)
>  l = [f"mulli 1, 0, {choice}"]
> 
> this says, "multiply register 0 by the immediate X and put the result in
> register 1, doesn't it?

Apparently that's what it says. Very helpful, I was struggling with this.

Going to go through point by point to confirm my understanding, below.

> 
>  initial_regs = [0] * 32

So this sets r0 through r31 to 0?

Registers are 64 bits?

>  initial_regs[1] = random.randint(-1 << 15, (1 << 15) - 1)
>  initial_regs[2] = random.randint(-1 << 15, (1 << 15) - 1)
> 
> here, register 1 and 2 have been set to a random value.

Right.

> what is register 0 set to by the previous line?

It is set to 0 because that's what all registers are initialized to.

> so why are you surprised to find that exactly what you have asked to be done
> is in fact being done?

Because I don't understand how to read it fluently yet! But I'm learning quite
a lot just today.

Thanks so much Luke, I'm beginning to understand.

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