Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why all glibc2 programs are FPU programs | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 28 May 1998 08:53:21 -0700 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz> writes:
> I originally thought that patch to kernel is going to be big and > heavy. If it is not (2 lines seem reasonable to me), could you please > post proposed kernel modification?
Add in linux/elf.h, line 132:
#define AT_LINUX_FPUCW 2134
(This is an arbitrary value.)
in linux/fs/binfmt_elf.c, change line 164 from
sp -= 2; to sp -= 4;
and in line 166 add
NEW_AUX_ENT(1, AT_LINUX_FPUCW, FPUCW_DEFAULT)
(Maybe this is the time where you can combine the AT_NULL and AT_HWCAP lines since there is no reason why the AT_PLATFORM must be between them. I.e.,
sp -= 6; NEW_AUX_ENT(0, AT_NULL, 0); NEW_AUX_ENT(1, AT_HWCAP, hwcap); NEW_AUX_ENT(2, AT_LINUX_FPUCW, FPUCW_DEFAULT) if (k_platform) { ...
and we've save yet another precious cycle for the sp -= 4 line!)
Beside this all to do is to make sure all ports define FPUCW_DEFAULT and also use this value in the code (I don't know whether such a macro already exists; if not it's high time to add one). That's all.
> PS: But... If kernel changes init word some time in future, all > programs (like /bin/true) will start using FPU, again.
The change wouldn't happen without a good reason and in this case it's certainly possible for everybody to upgrade the system. But at least old programs will continue to work.
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