New patches from Ioannis E. VENETIS to allow building more up-to-date Alpha x-compilers.
Some patches are still missing, though.
See: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-help/2008-06/msg00061.html

/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5.1/270-glibc-alpha-cfi.patch | 25 25 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5.1/280-glibc-alpha-sigsuspend.patch | 24 24 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5/270-glibc-alpha-cfi.patch | 25 25 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/2.5/280-glibc-alpha-sigsuspend.patch | 24 24 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/glibc/linuxthreads-2.3.6/270-glibc-linuxthreads-alpha-cfi.patch | 25 25 0 0 ++++++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.0/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.1/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.3.0/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.2/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.3.1/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
/trunk/patches/gcc/4.2.3/940-gcc-alpha-signal_h.patch | 17 17 0 0 +++++++
11 files changed, 225 insertions(+)

 Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:

 http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html

 fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.

 The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".

 diff -dur glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c

 --- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100

 +++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200

 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@

  int

  fetestexcept (int excepts)

  {

 -  int temp;

 +  short temp;

    int xtemp = 0;

    /* Get current exceptions.  */