diff -r 4bf8448536d5 -r d3e603e7c17c patches/glibc/2.3.6/200-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/patches/glibc/2.3.6/200-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch	Mon Jul 28 21:32:33 2008 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+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.  */