Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 27 Jul 97 08:05 MET DST | | From | (Hans-Joachim Baader) | | Subject | Re: Pentium emulation |
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In article <Pine.SOL.3.90.970725132910.1110B-100000@maigret.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> you write: >No. There are no new Pentium opcodes other than things like RDTSC or >RDMSR, which aren't really useful for normal user programs and are >never generated by the compiler. >Things are different with PPro/Pentium II which have a new conditional >move instruction. The currently available GCC versions don't generate >these either, but 2.8.0 will most likely support them. It might make >sense to try to provide an emulation for those, but it would not be >very useful because of the performance loss. I don't think there will >be any precompiled binaries with those opcodes anytime soon. You're probably right. Precompiled apps must stay 386/486 compatible for many years. There may be a few exceptions (games?) but they would be too slow on 386/486 anyway.
hjb -- Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it.
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