Enhance setting the minimum kernel version glibc will run against.
Ideally, eglibc should also benefit for that, but the current code does not set it.
/trunk/scripts/build/libc/glibc.sh | 38 33 5 0 +++++++++++++++---
/trunk/config/libc/glibc.in | 4 2 2 0 +-
/trunk/config/libc/uClibc.in | 2 2 0 0 +
/trunk/config/libc/eglibc.in | 4 2 2 0 +-
/trunk/config/libc/glibc-eglibc-common.in | 80 68 12 0 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
/trunk/config/libc.in | 69 38 31 0 ++++++++++++++++++--------------
6 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
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-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c
8 --- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100
9 +++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c 2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200
12 fetestexcept (int excepts)
18 /* Get current exceptions. */