patches/glibc/2.3.6/200-use_short_for_fnstsw.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Tue Sep 23 14:48:10 2008 +0000 (2008-09-23)
changeset 872 fd4bf138f08f
parent 744 4bf8448536d5
permissions -rw-r--r--
Bart De VOS pointed out that removing absolute paths from the libc linker scripts is plainly wrong.
It dates from dawn ages of the original crosstool code, and is not well explained. At that time, binutils might not understand the sysroot stuff, and it was necessary to remove absolute paths in that case.

/trunk/scripts/build/libc/glibc.sh | 14 2 12 0 ++------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
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Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:
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http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html
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fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
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The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".
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diff -dur glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
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--- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
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+++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
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 int
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 fetestexcept (int excepts)
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 {
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-  int temp;
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+  short temp;
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   int xtemp = 0;
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   /* Get current exceptions.  */