glibc 2.1.92 make check results under Linux PPC

Franz Sirl Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com
Thu Aug 17 13:22:00 GMT 2000


On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 00:51:26 +0200
> >
> > 	* sysdeps/powerpc/fpu_control.h: Clobber the right amount of memory.
>
> I think this won't work the way you might like, because of type-based
> alias analysis.  Instead, we need a union:
>
> union { double d; fpu_control_t c[2]; } tmp;

Ah, yes, sure, I forgot about that. Find appended a new version of the patch.

This leaves the ELF visibility failure, with Kevin's description it feels a 
bit like a cache invalidation problem...

Franz.


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