shifts on 64bit ints

Takashi Oe toe at unlserve.unl.edu
Fri Aug 4 10:50:01 EST 2000


On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Takashi Oe wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Franz Sirl wrote:
>
> > Oh no!! It's even worse! The kernel implementation of ashldi3, ashrdi3 and
> > lshrdi3 seems broken, see this code in arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S:
>
> The brokenness of those implementations has been noted by Gabriel a long
> time ago, and I believe he even sent a fix to this list once.  For some
> unknown reasons, it has largely been ignored.  I think I can dig out his
> patch if I try hard though.

Ok, found it:

http://lists.linuxppc.org/listarcs/linuxppc-dev/199904/msg00189.html

more than a year ago....


Takashi Oe


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