patches/glibc/2.5/160-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Thu Aug 05 17:59:49 2010 +0200 (2010-08-05)
changeset 2067 477c7955e6b0
parent 607 aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions -rw-r--r--
complibs/ppl: fix PPL build with GMP 5.x.x

From http://www.cs.unipr.it/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ppl/ppl.git;a=commitdiff;h=9c19bc2b318a35016e0189f9552c98910be37f53

Author: Roberto Bagnara <bagnara@cs.unipr.it>
Revision log: Added support for GMP 5.0.

Adapted manually to match and not having to re-generate the configure script.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
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Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:
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http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html
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fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
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The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".
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diff -dur glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
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--- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
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+++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
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 int
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 fetestexcept (int excepts)
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 {
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-  int temp;
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+  short temp;
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   int xtemp = 0;
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   /* Get current exceptions.  */