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Re: Fix missing ARM clobbers in longlong.h

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:38:20PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > The file is actually mastered in gmp, as far as I can tell.  That file
> > has several years worth of divergence, including a fix for this bug.  I
> > didn't feel up to tracking down all the changes.
> 
> In fact, glibc's use of longlong.h is really for the gmp code.  So I would
> be happiest if we can copy it verbatim from gmp.  Do you think there is any
> risk in doing that without thinking at the moment about the rest of gmp's
> changes since the version of gmp code copied into glibc long ago?

I think that there's little risk of gmp's later changes having broken
anything, but greater risk of losing glibc's local fixes in that time
period; I don't know if anyone's been feeding those back to gmp.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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