Add a new patch to glibc to build for Alpha on recent Linux kernels.

/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5.1/260-alpha-asm_elf.patch | 194 194 0 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5/260-alpha-asm_elf.patch | 194 194 0 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.6.1/200-alpha-asm_elf.patch | 194 194 0 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.6/200-alpha-asm_elf.patch | 194 194 0 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.3.6/270-alpha-asm_elf.patch | 194 194 0 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.7/220-alpha-asm_elf.patch | 194 194 0 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
6 files changed, 1164 insertions(+)

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-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c

--- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100

+++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@

 int

 fetestexcept (int excepts)

 {

-  int temp;

+  short temp;

   int xtemp = 0;

   /* Get current exceptions.  */