Bug#178645: sparc gcc-compat

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Sun, 9 Feb 2003 02:03:31 +0100,
Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:43PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > Thanks!  I added it in debian-glibc cvs.  I hope next release does not
> > cause symbol resolutions on sparc32 :)
> Unfortunately the patch contains a glitch in __muldi3 which causes an
> endless loop in the testsuite. Fixed version attached. It passes make
> check again now.

Thanks again, I added it.

> > BTW, could you have any plan to submit these patches into upstream?
> We should first check if everything works out right. If so, I'll submit
> them upstream. I'd prefer to have the libgcc-compat.c rewritten in
> assembler for mips and sparc so we can replace the funtion calls by a
> simple jump but I think it's more important to move glibc into testing
> first.

Excellent idea :)

BTW, I heard from Philip that there was also arm compat issue, do you
know about it?

Regards,
-- gotom