Re: possible solution for the asm kernel breakage

[Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 06:04:40PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> Hello PARI developers,
> 
> Some of the asm-inline level0 kernel are currently broken in CVS because they do not
> default to portable kernel when needed.
> 
> Here an attempt to fix that for powerpc and amd64. 
> 
> Basically we add src/kernel/none/level0.h and src/kernel/none/divll.h
> before the asm-inline kernel, and we ajust headers a bit to avoid
> symbol clash.
> 
> Once the process is finalised, I will implement it for the other
> asm-inline level0 kernels.

Bill,

can you please define for the potential patch testers what the
symptoms of the problem are and the scope of testing?  ./Configure
--kernel=none works fine on amd64 with CVS sources, so how would the
tester know whether the patch fixes anything.  Or is the goal here to
make sure the patch doesn't break anything?  

Thanks

Igor