patches/glibc/2.6.1/160-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author David Holsgrove <david.holsgrove@xilinx.com>
Thu Oct 11 14:39:40 2012 +1000 (2012-10-11)
changeset 3076 63d108a39453
parent 607 aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions -rw-r--r--
kernel/linux: use generic custom infrastructure

Config options remain the same as before, just generalised to be used by other
components also.

Signed-off-by: "David Holsgrove" <david.holsgrove@xilinx.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: fix indentation, fix comment]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Message-Id: <50674fe47431174aab80.1349931193@localhost.localdomain>
PatchWork-Id: 190786
     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.  */