Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Apr 1998 01:31:50 +0200 | From | Thomas Pornin <> | Subject | Re: i386 support |
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In article <6r9YDpp$2BB@trib0026.line.org>, Johnny Tevessen <j.tevessen@line.org> wrote: >Is it planned to drop i386 in future and only support ix86 >with (x>=4)?
As far as I know, i386 is not about to be dropped. And it is unlikely it will ever be dropped, because there are many 386's around that perform a good duty of routing. This message, for instance, has gone twice (for typing and for sending) through a 386dx40 with four cheap ne2000 clones, and this little thing handles 700 Kbytes per second.
>Do Linux programs compiled with gcc with -m486 (which expands >to -mcpu=i486) run on i386 machines? And -march=i486?
Those compiled with -m486 MAY work on a 386, but I would not bet my life on it. gcc uses 486-specific instructions with -m486. Linux distributions use kernels built for 386.
--Thomas Pornin
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