cvs commit: src/lib/msun/alpha fenv.h src/lib/msun/amd64 fenv.h src/lib/msun/arm fenv.h src/lib/msun/i387 fenv.h src/lib/msun/ia64 fenv.h src/lib/msun/powerpc fenv.h src/lib/msun/sparc64 fenv.h

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Jan 14 05:28:30 PST 2005


On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:24:33AM -0500, David Schultz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:09:23AM +0000, David Schultz wrote:
> > > das         2005-01-14 07:09:23 UTC
> > > 
> > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     lib/msun/alpha       fenv.h 
> > >     lib/msun/amd64       fenv.h 
> > >     lib/msun/arm         fenv.h 
> > >     lib/msun/i387        fenv.h 
> > >     lib/msun/ia64        fenv.h 
> > >     lib/msun/powerpc     fenv.h 
> > >     lib/msun/sparc64     fenv.h 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Mark all inline asms that read the floating-point control or status
> > >   registers as volatile.  Instructions that *wrote* to FP state were
> > >   already marked volatile, but apparently gcc has license to move
> > >   non-volatile asms past volatile asms.  This broke amd64's feupdateenv
> > >   at -O2 due to a WAR conflict between fnstsw and fldenv there.
> > 
> > Do you think this is likely to the cause of the build failures
> > reported with a number of ports when world is compiled with -O2
> > (i.e. does the feupdateenv failure cascade to other commonly-used
> > parts of the code)?
> 
> No, this would lead to a runtime failure, and I would be surprised
> if very many ports use fenv.h anyway.

OK :-(

Someone needs to revert amd64 back to using -O in the meantime, then.

Kris
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