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authorMartin Sebor <msebor@redhat.com>2015-06-01 14:12:09 -0300
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-06-01 16:19:50 -0300
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powerpc: setcontext.S uses power6 mtfsf when not supported [BZ #18116]
The attached patch fixes a glibc build failure with gcc 5 on powerpc64le
caused by a recent change in gcc where the compiler defines the
_ARCH_PWR6 macro when processing assembly files but doesn't invoke the
assembler in the corresponding machine mode (unless it has been
explicitly configured to target POWER 6 or later).  A bug had been filed
with gcc for this (65341) but was closed as won't fix. Glibc relies on
the _ARCH_PWR6 macro in a few .S files to make use of Power ISA 2.5
instructions (specifically, the four-argument form of the mtfsf insn).
A similar problem had occurred in the past (bug 10118) but the fix that
was committed for it didn't anticipate this new problem.
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+2015-03-11  Martin Sebor  <msebor@redhat.com>
+
+	[BZ #18116]
+        * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/setcontext.S
+        (__setcontext): Use extended four-operand version of mtsf whenever
+	possible.
+        * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/swapcontext.S
+        (__novec_swapcontext): Likewise.
+
 2015-06-01  Siddhesh Poyarekar  <siddhesh@redhat.com>
 
 	* benchtests/scripts/compare_bench.py: New file.