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

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 04/25/2014 12:38 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:17 AM, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 04/25/2014 10:30 AM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Agreed. Thanks for catching the fact that this is an installed header.
>>
> 
> I tested and checked in this patch to replace __int128 with __int128_t.

Awesome. Thanks for the quick turnaround HJ.

The fact that this is an installed header makes it even more important
that we reduce the compiler requirement for usage.

Cheers,
Carlos.