Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

2009-07-31 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/30/2009 09:29 AM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Thanks for this patch I have tried it, and it does not have the original problem I have reported. Unfortunately it does not pass the glibc testsuite. I'll try to debug the problem later (I don't own an alpha machine, and need to have internet access t

Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

2009-07-29 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/26/2009 04:45 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote: Knowing that $31 could be used for prefetch, I have modified the assembly code from memchr.S to use it. It passes all the testsuite. This isn't intended to be a prefetch instruction, it's meant to be fetching the data for the next word. I.e. we've

Re: Help on memchr() EGLIBC assembly code

2009-07-15 Thread Richard Henderson
On 07/13/2009 03:16 PM, Matt Turner forwarded: The problem is that the memchr() function on alpha uses prefetch, which can cause a page boundary to be crossed, while the standards (POSIX and C99) says it should stop when a match is found. That's not supposed to matter -- faults from prefetch ar

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2004-05-01 Thread Henderson
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2004-05-01 Thread Henderson
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Re: [rfc] alpha-linux changing to 128-bit long double

2004-03-13 Thread Richard Henderson
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 09:08:06AM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On the other side, Alpha is not the only arch which want long double > and changing SONAME is really painful. I was noticing this. > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-hacker/2002-08/msg00102.html > was my initial attempt to handle

[rfc] alpha-linux changing to 128-bit long double

2004-03-06 Thread Richard Henderson
So I'm thinking that I'd like to finally get around to changing to 128-bit long double for alpha-linux. I'm undecided how to go about doing this though. The math routines would be easy to version, but things like printf definitely aren't. Because of that, I was thinking that perhaps it might be

Bug#229251: libc6.1: request ev67 specific build

2004-01-24 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:13:33PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Richard, do we need your recent patches to glibc to make this worthwhile? > Our snapshot is from September or so. No. All of this is quite old. The only thing that's new is the kernel patch, and that 3-liner is only cause I never not

Bug#229251: libc6.1: request ev67 specific build

2004-01-24 Thread Richard Henderson
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:13:33PM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > Richard, do we need your recent patches to glibc to make this worthwhile? > Our snapshot is from September or so. No. All of this is quite old. The only thing that's new is the kernel patch, and that 3-liner is only cause I never not

Bug#229251: libc6.1: request ev67 specific build

2004-01-23 Thread Richard Henderson
Package: libc6.1 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10 Severity: wishlist Beginning with versions 2.6.2 and 2.4.25, the kernel will emit AT_PLATFORM data for ev56, ev6, ev67. This would allow optional system-specific libraries in /lib/$platform/ as for other targets. EV67 is most interesting because libc has sp

Bug#229251: libc6.1: request ev67 specific build

2004-01-23 Thread Richard Henderson
Package: libc6.1 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-10 Severity: wishlist Beginning with versions 2.6.2 and 2.4.25, the kernel will emit AT_PLATFORM data for ev56, ev6, ev67. This would allow optional system-specific libraries in /lib/$platform/ as for other targets. EV67 is most interesting because libc has sp