patches/glibc/2.5.1/160-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author Daniel Price <daniel.price@gmail.com>
Mon Nov 19 15:20:13 2012 -0800 (2012-11-19)
changeset 3118 51160d293e1f
parent 607 aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions -rw-r--r--
scripts: unquoted variable reference in glibc-eglibc.sh-common

Signed-off-by: Daniel Price <daniel.price@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <12f092a95a94bcf76912.1353367250@redfish.dssd.com>
Patchwork-Id: 200215
     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.  */