patches/glibc/2.3.6/200-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Thu Aug 05 17:59:50 2010 +0200 (2010-08-05)
changeset 2068 581a2778ca6f
parent 744 4bf8448536d5
permissions -rw-r--r--
libc/glibc: let glibc 3.3.6 link correctly

From http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;f=elf/Makefile;h=7c8a67320e26b8c11108bf0a3410d3aef9cf3486

Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>:
Commit log:
* elf/Makefile (ld.so): Adjust the sed script to insert _begin in to
newer linker scripts.

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.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.  */