[PATCH 2/N, MPX, x86_64] Intel MPX support in glibc for x86_64

Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Fri Apr 25 14:30:00 GMT 2014


On Fri, 25 Apr 2014, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> You should test for __int128, set HAVE_INT128, and make this
> support conditional on the compiler feature being present
> (avoid hard-coding the compiler version). I believe Ondrej
> posted a patch for this?

bits/link.h is an installed header so can't contain conditionals on 
configure test results like that.

However, the __int128_t built-in typedef is much older than the __int128 
keyword (dating back to GCC 3.0, i.e. predating x86_64 support which was 
added in 3.1), so that can be used instead.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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