patches/glibc/2.5.1/160-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author Yann Diorcet (diorcet.yann@gmail.com)
Fri Nov 16 14:59:27 2012 +0100 (2012-11-16)
changeset 3115 1c68438f44f7
parent 607 aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions -rw-r--r--
complibs: introduce generic multi-complibs infrastructure

Use the same method as companion tools for providing generic and
extendable companion libs.

Signed-off-by: Yann Diorcet <diorcet.yann@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <515c5c4635d99ebe4877.1353074410@macbook-smorlat.local>
Patchwork-Id: 199613
     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.  */