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+Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:
+http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html
+
+fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
+The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".
+
+diff -dur glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
+--- glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
++++ glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2008-06-24 10:54:43.000000000 +0200
+@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
+ int
+ fetestexcept (int excepts)
+ {
+- int temp;
++ short temp;
+ int xtemp = 0;
+
+ /* Get current exceptions. */