patches/glibc/2.7/170-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Mon Mar 28 01:05:18 2011 +0200 (2011-03-28)
changeset 2362 0888065f8c4d
parent 612 fc9588d57c0f
permissions -rw-r--r--
cc/gcc: cleanup the _or_later logic

So far, we've had a version always select appropriate _or_later option,
which in turn would select all previous _or_later options.

Because the dependencies on companion libs were cumulative, that was
working OK. But the upcoming 4.6 will no longer depend on libelf, so
we can't keep the cumulative scheme we've been using so far.

Have each release family select the corresponding dependencies, instead
of relying on selecting previous _or_later.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
     1 Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:
     2 http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html
     3 
     4 fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
     5 The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".
     6 
     7 diff -dur glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
     8 --- glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
     9 +++ glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:54:43.000000000 +0200
    10 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
    11  int
    12  fetestexcept (int excepts)
    13  {
    14 -  int temp;
    15 +  short temp;
    16    int xtemp = 0;
    17  
    18    /* Get current exceptions.  */