shifts on 64bit ints

Thomas Graichen news-innominate.list.linux.ppc.dev at innominate.de
Fri Aug 4 17:16:55 EST 2000


Takashi Oe <toe at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:

> 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

nks - i'll try (think and hope :-) that this fixes the problems with
xfs ... will mail the result here later

t

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