From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>, <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
<carlos@systemhalted.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hppa: fix __O_SYNC to match the kernel
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 22:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1503012223310.29113@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BLU436-SMTP175B7131A983C54990446FB97130@phx.gbl>
On Sun, 1 Mar 2015, John David Anglin wrote:
> The main bug in feholdexcept is the second set of bufptr. This existed
> to the restore the exception registers in reverse order. This statement
> should have been removed when the code was changed to only update the
> status and first exception registers. The offset used in the statement
> is also off by a factor two, so it probably never worked correctly.
> With the current patch, the code loads zero to the status and exception
> register. As a result, the T bit is not set properly.
If this bug was user-visible in a release, there should be a bug filed in
Bugzilla for it (this generally applies when fixing any bug that was
user-visible in a release).
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-01 22:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-24 5:19 Mike Frysinger
2015-02-24 14:50 ` John David Anglin
2015-02-24 16:20 ` Joseph Myers
2015-02-27 5:06 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-02-27 6:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-01 19:55 ` John David Anglin
2015-03-01 22:24 ` Joseph Myers [this message]
2015-03-02 13:18 ` John David Anglin
2015-03-02 14:09 ` Joseph Myers
2015-03-11 7:33 ` Mike Frysinger
2015-03-08 19:52 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-03-08 21:30 ` John David Anglin
2015-03-09 12:36 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-03-07 17:13 ` John David Anglin
2015-03-08 19:53 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-03-11 6:29 ` Carlos O'Donell
2015-02-27 6:46 ` Mike Frysinger
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