Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6 | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:31:35 -0500 (EST) |
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> As about the broken calling conventions of the IA32 ABI, I think it > doesn't worth to break the binary compatibility at this late stage.
We are not at any late stage. The new 64-bit PC processors might be accepted about as well as Microchannel and EISA were accepted. Crummy old 32-bit processors will be around much longer than we'd like them to be.
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