1 GLIBC_PROVIDES dnl See aclocal.m4 in the top level source directory.
2 # Local configure fragment for sysdeps/i386.
4 # We no longer support i386 since it lacks the atomic instructions
5 # required to implement NPTL threading.
6 if test "$config_machine" = i386; then
8 *** ERROR: Support for i386 is deprecated.
9 *** Please use host i786, i686, i585 or i486.
10 *** For example: /src/glibc/configure --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu ..."])
13 # The GNU C Library can't be built for i386. There are several reasons for
14 # this restriction. The primary reason is that i386 lacks the atomic
15 # operations required to support the current NPTL implementation. While it is
16 # possible that such atomic operations could be emulated in the kernel to date
17 # no such work has been done to enable this. Even with NPTL disabled you still
18 # have no atomic.h implementation. Given the declining use of i386 we disable
19 # support for building with `-march=i386' or `-mcpu=i386.' We don't explicitly
20 # check for i386, instead we make sure the compiler has support for inlining
21 # the builtin __sync_val_compare_and_swap. If it does then we should have no
22 # problem building for i386.
23 LIBC_COMPILER_BUILTIN_INLINED(
24 [__sync_val_compare_and_swap],
25 [int a, b, c; __sync_val_compare_and_swap (&a, b, c);],
27 [libc_cv_unsupported_i386=no],
29 *** Building with -march=i386/-mcpu=i386 is not supported.
30 *** Please use host i786, i686, i586, or i486.
31 *** For example: /source/glibc/configure CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i686' ...])])
33 dnl Check whether asm supports Intel MPX
34 AC_CACHE_CHECK(for Intel MPX support, libc_cv_asm_mpx, [dnl
35 cat > conftest.s <<\EOF
38 if AC_TRY_COMMAND(${CC-cc} -c $ASFLAGS conftest.s 1>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD); then
44 if test $libc_cv_asm_mpx = yes; then
45 AC_DEFINE(HAVE_MPX_SUPPORT)
48 AC_DEFINE(USE_REGPARMS)
50 dnl It is always possible to access static and hidden symbols in an
51 dnl position independent way.
52 AC_DEFINE(PI_STATIC_AND_HIDDEN)