crosstool-ng: patches/glibc/2.7/170-use_short_for

scripts/functions: add aria2, a powerfull downloader

aria2 is a powerfull downloader that is capable of chunking and
parallel retrieval.

Due to li;itations in crosstool-NG retrieval facilities, it's not possible
to take fully advantage of aria2. It might happen that, in the future,
those limitations get lifted away, so we can take use features such as
parallel downloading from more than one server at the same time. For now,
it should still speed up downloads thanks to parallel downloading of chunks.

     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

    10 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@

    11  int

    12  fetestexcept (int excepts)

    13  {

    14 -  int temp;

    15 +  short temp;

    16    int xtemp = 0;

    18    /* Get current exceptions.  */

author	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
	Wed Dec 30 15:36:22 2009 +0100 (2009-12-30)
changeset 1669	61edd9d19e3c
parent 612	fc9588d57c0f
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