Messages in this thread | | | From | flux@inside ... | Date | Mon, 10 Nov 1997 18:31:19 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: Stops Pentiums dead (and how does Cyrix perform?) |
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On 9 Nov 1997, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Beside that you cannot simply trap on the `lock' prefix it is of > course completely wrong that `lock' isn't used on user-level. glibc > plus its other libraries use it quite often to handle concurrency.
Anyway, if you can trap it, you can then check if the opcode is bad - if not, return. It'll be a minor (?) performance hit though.. _____________________________________________________________________ / __// /__ ____ __ Erkki Seppälä\ \ / /_ / // // /\ \/ / Inside Informatics ry \ / /_/ /_/ \___/ /_/\_\@inside.org http://www.inside.org/~flux/ \/
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