Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:13:12 +0100 | | From | Harald Dunkel <> | | Subject | Re: New Solaris 7 features |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > > - Arithmetic computations get to use 64-bit registers and operations > > Except on the half of the ultrasparcs, where 64bit stuff is > mostly disabled because of CPU bugs ;) (See Bugtraq) >
Maybe it's beyond the scope of this mailing list, but:
How can I check whether an Ultra workstation running SunOS 5.7 uses 64bit features instead of workarounds based on the old 32bit functionality? I would like to get an algorithm to identify these broken CPUs.
Regards
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