Add two new patches to glibc-2.7 to make it build for Alpha.
Patches propagated to me from the net by Ioannis E. VENETIS.
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.7/230-glibc-2.7-alpha-atfcts.patch | 12 12 0 0 ++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.7/240-glibc-2.7-alpha-ptr_mangle.patch | 94 94 0 0 +++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
1 Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:
2 http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html
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".
7 diff -dur glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
8 --- glibc-2.7.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
9 +++ glibc-2.7/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2008-06-24 10:54:43.000000000 +0200
12 fetestexcept (int excepts)
18 /* Get current exceptions. */