vapier      15/05/30 16:55:20

  Modified:             00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch
  Log:
  document upstream status

Revision  Changes    Path
1.2                  
src/patchsets/gcc/3.3.6/gentoo/00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch

file : 
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/gcc/3.3.6/gentoo/00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch?rev=1.2&view=markup
plain: 
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/gcc/3.3.6/gentoo/00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain
diff : 
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewvc.cgi/gentoo/src/patchsets/gcc/3.3.6/gentoo/00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch?r1=1.1&r2=1.2

Index: 00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch
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RCS file: 
/var/cvsroot/gentoo/src/patchsets/gcc/3.3.6/gentoo/00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.1 -r1.2
--- 00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch    30 May 2005 04:10:41 -0000      1.1
+++ 00_all_alpha-mieee-default.patch    30 May 2015 16:55:20 -0000      1.2
@@ -1,12 +1,19 @@
-Set the default behavior on alpha to use -mieee since the large majority of 
-time we want this (bad/weird things can happen with packages built without 
--mieee).
+Set the default behavior on alpha to use -mieee since the large majority of
+time we want this (bad/weird things can happen with packages built without
+it).
 
-To satisfy those people who may not want -mieee forced on them all the time, 
+To satisfy those people who may not want -mieee forced on them all the time,
 we also provide -mno-ieee.
 
 Patch by Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
 
+Note: upstream doesn't want to take this due to long standing behavior, and
+because it'd make behavior across OS's inconsistent:
+       https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2003-07/msg02144.html
+
+This makes sense for upstream, but Gentoo is more concerned about packages
+behaving the same across arches under Linux.
+
 --- gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h
 +++ gcc/config/alpha/alpha.h
 @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@




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