Re: [PATCH] Add LEA64 macro for sparc64.

2013-04-16 Thread David Miller
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 I asked them to keep the outdated assembler for another system.

Re: [PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.

2013-04-16 Thread David Miller
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

Re: [PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.

2013-04-16 Thread Torbjorn Granlund
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

Re: [PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.

2013-04-16 Thread David Miller
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