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SubjectRe: Compiling with gcc, sig 11, I've got the answer(?)
On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Perry Harrington wrote:

> I've noticed that I'm getting sig 11 a lot with my 486 machines.
> Isuspect that this is related to 486's and write back caches.
> My Cyrix 486 and Intel dx4 both get sig11's. They both have
> write back caches. However, I never had this problem with my AMD
> and it has a write back cache. I suspect that AMD has a better
> cache manager. Anyhow, I'm strongly leaning towards the wrback
> cache being the problem.

A lot of 486 motherboards were sold with bad or totally fake cache that
would do this sort of thing.


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