patches/glibc/2.5/160-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author Cody Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Fri May 09 19:10:08 2014 -0700 (2014-05-09)
changeset 3310 6fb47591d19d
parent 607 aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions -rw-r--r--
arch: add option to let gccdecide what floating point to use

Add an ARCH_FLOAT_AUTO option to avoid passing float options
to gcc and allow it to choose

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
[yann.morin.1998@free.fr: slightly reword the commit log]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Message-Id: <088489641f4790262685.1399687813@localhost>
Patchwork-Id: 347584
     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.  */