patches/glibc/2.5.1/160-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author "Benoît Thébaudeau" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
Mon Apr 16 15:25:36 2012 +0200 (2012-04-16)
changeset 2941 13e40098fffc
parent 607 aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions -rw-r--r--
cc/gcc: update Linaro GCC revisions to 2012.04

Update Linaro GCC with the latest available revisions.

The 4.7 revision is also released, but the infrastructure is not yet ready for
it in CT-NG.

Signed-off-by: "Benoît Thébaudeau" <benoit.thebaudeau@advansee.com>
     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-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
     8 --- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
     9 +++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +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.  */