I've created a patch for sympow, which the release manager has agreed to merge
in 4.5.3 - in fact, he has kindly made it a blocker!!
He is happy with it, but wants someone able to comment on the changes I made to
the file fpu.c.
This is the original file.
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/patches/sympow-1.018.1.p8/src/fpu.c
which sets some bits in the control register for the floating point processor.
However, it uses Linux constructs and includes a linux header file.
Here's the changed version, which I used inline assembly code.
http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/patches/sympow-1.018.1.p8/patches/fpu.c
The file is pretty well commented, but Mitesh feels unable to review that
particular file.
You might ask why did I read the register, then change the bits, then write it,
rather than just write a number as the original sympow code does.
The reason is that one of those bits in the register is reserved by Intel, so I
don't think one should write to a reserved bit. It's better to read it, change
the two bits I needed to, then write it back.
Please add comments on #9703
Dave
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