While I had to deal with a libkern issue, I considered to
syncronize the files in libc and libkern again.
But I found that there was a change done in libc
which is either wrong or not complete:

In libc/quad/ashrdi3.c, some casts were applied which change
the behaviour wrt sign extension of right shifts.

I don't have access to standards documents; the C99 draft
says that the outcome of right shifts of signed values
is implementation dependant. Should we interpret this as
"dependant, but consistent": if "int" types get sign extended,
"quad" types should too, and sign extension doesn't depend
on the number of bits we shifted by? Or is this really
random, ie we shouldn't care?

In particular,
s = ((u_long)aa.sl[H] >> (LONG_BITS - 1)) >> 1;
does always give a "0", so we always fill up with zeroes
since that cast went in; without the cast, quads would
inherit the behaviour of longs. If we agree to "random"
bahaviour, that line could be nuked.

best regards
Matthias