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Re: PowerPC's math_ldbl.h


On 03/15/2013 11:52 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> On 03/15/2013 09:34 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Feb 2013, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>>
>>> Also, the big change for fpu related code selection is 
>>> sysdeps/powerpc/fpu now up to sysdeps/ieee754/ldlb-128ibm and 
>>> sysdeps/ieee754/ldlb-opt (which also made sense). This currently does 
>>> not change anything, because sysdeps/powerpc/fpu does not have any 
>>> specific implementation for long double.
>> In a powerpc64 build, I see ABI test failures because sqrtl, version 
>> GLIBC_2.3 (the compat alias to sqrt) is no longer exported from libm.  
>> sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c is used, where I think 
>> sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/w_sqrt.c would have been used before to provide 
>> that compat symbol.
>>
>> Could you please fix this ABI failure if it was indeed caused by your 
>> change and, if so, review the sysdeps orderings again to identify any 
>> other cases of files that are now being found from a different directory 
>> from before that your logic above may have missed?
>>
>> (Note: I haven't done tests before and after your commit to confirm it's 
>> responsible, but it certainly looks likely to be.)
>>
> I believe my patch in fact uncover an issue with sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c:
> different from sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/fpu/w_sqrt.c it does *not* have:
>
> #if LONG_DOUBLE_COMPAT(libm, GLIBC_2_0)
> compat_symbol (libm, __sqrt, sqrtl, GLIBC_2_0);
> #endif
>
> Which is basically what sysdeps/ieee754/ldbl-opt/w_sqrt.c does. Also, I think there
> is not need to neither sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c or 
> ./sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/fpu/w_sqrt.c anymore: the latter was added to 
> inline the ISA 2.03 fsqrt instruction and math_private.h already has an inline version
> that is used on math/w_sqrt.c.
>
> I'll recheck it tomorrow, but I'm sure we can delete both sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c
> and sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/power4/fpu/w_sqrt.c and use the default math/w_sqrt.c
> instead. And the fsqrt inline optimization will be include since it is defined at
> math_private.h.
>
> Thanks for spotting it, I usually just test build for power4+.
>
This patch fixes the ABI issue. I though about make a cleanup of the multiple w_sqrt
version on PPC, but I add in a TODO list. Ok to apply?

--

2013-03-17  Adhemerval Zanella  <azanella@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

	* sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c (compat_symbol): Add sqrtl compat symbol.

--

diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c b/sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c
index 2488ad9..70f28dd 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/fpu/w_sqrt.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <math.h>
 #include <math_private.h>
 #include <fenv_libc.h>
+#include <math_ldbl_opt.h>
 
 double
 __sqrt (double x)		/* wrapper sqrt */
@@ -42,3 +43,6 @@ weak_alias (__sqrt, sqrt)
 #ifdef NO_LONG_DOUBLE
   strong_alias (__sqrt, __sqrtl) weak_alias (__sqrt, sqrtl)
 #endif
+#if LONG_DOUBLE_COMPAT(libm, GLIBC_2_0)
+compat_symbol (libm, __sqrt, sqrtl, GLIBC_2_0);
+#endif
-- 
1.7.1


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