patches/glibc/2.7/170-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author Titus von Boxberg <titus@v9g.de>
Sun Aug 21 17:54:12 2011 +0200 (2011-08-21)
branch1.12
changeset 2635 daa630f28c05
parent 612 fc9588d57c0f
permissions -rw-r--r--
complibs/libelf: use target ranlib

For portability, the right ranlib for the target must be passed to
libelf's configure.

Signed-off-by: "Titus von Boxberg" <titus@v9g.de>
(transplanted from e4a6fefcb0f5ecbcade3ae5edbe609560843aed1)
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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-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
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--- glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
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+++ glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:54:43.000000000 +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.  */