[erlang-patches] Patch for binary pattern matching of floats with HiPE

[Paul Guyot]

Hello,

HiPE generates bad code for a pattern matching of a float with a variable size length such as :
<<F:S/float>>

The following function always fail when compiled natively and behaves as expected with BEAM:

bin_to_float(B,S) ->
    <<F:S/float>> = B,
    F.

Judging from the almost identical code for integers, this obviously is a typo. I guess both code could be factorized, although I do not know what the policy is for duplicate code in HiPE (it's just about 14x2 lines).

The following commit fixes this bug. Also, a test is obvious to implement and I wish HiPE tests were open source, so we could enrich them.

https://github.com/pguyot/otp/commit/79e0c0345539624ed8bdcea2450dc2252f8375e8
git fetch git://github.com/pguyot/otp.git fix-hipe-bs_get_float2

Regards,

Paul
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