Re: [PATCH] Add LEA64 macro for sparc64.
From: Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:53:13 +0200 I had the sysadmins at KTH (Royal Institute of Technology, where gmplib.org is hosted) to upgrade one solaris system using the patch you pointed out. I asked them to keep the outdated assembler for another system. The nightly builds will be made on both systems. Unpatched solaris: swift.nada.kth.se Patched solaris: my.nada.kth.se That is fantastic, thanks for doing this. ___ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel
Re: [PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.
From: Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:43:58 +0200 If we cannot make an configure test, we need to know if there is a release where the assembler can be trusted. After some discussions with my Oracle contact, I think a configure test will actually be easy, the assembler on Solaris 10 emits well formed version information. For example as -V gives: as: SunOS 5.10 118683-09 Patch 01/23/2013 So we can use that to detect if the proper fixes are installed. ___ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel
Re: [PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.
David Miller da...@davemloft.net writes: From: Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:43:58 +0200 If we cannot make an configure test, we need to know if there is a release where the assembler can be trusted. After some discussions with my Oracle contact, I think a configure test will actually be easy, the assembler on Solaris 10 emits well formed version information. For example as -V gives: as: SunOS 5.10 118683-09 Patch 01/23/2013 So we can use that to detect if the proper fixes are installed. I have a slight preference of checking for functionality than of checking aganst a database of version numbers. My experience is that version number formatting changes forth and back, and that it is therefore fragile to detect all faulty ones. The old as uses one format: as: Sun Compiler Common 10 Patch 05/06/2005 And the new one another: as: SunOS 5.10 118683-10 Patch 03/14/2013 And how about SunOS 9 with a patched assembler...? The horror example is Mac OS X. Their compiler tools are buggier than all other tools put together, and the version numbers and apparent date stamps seem absolutely non-linear. I had to give up supporting most Xcode releases, and just tell people try another Xcode release when they run into bugs with GMP. But if a real feature/bug test is too hard, or hard to make reliable, version detection is what we have to do. -- Torbjörn ___ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel
Re: [PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.
From: Torbjorn Granlund t...@gmplib.org Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:37 +0200 But if a real feature/bug test is too hard, or hard to make reliable, version detection is what we have to do. My plan is to shoot for a full functionality+bug test, and if that's too hard then if the assembler accepts the expressions then I do a version check of some kind. ___ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel
