Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Q] Looking for an emulation for CMOV* instructions. | Date | Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:26:07 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
| |
> > hard to get emulations right. I grant that this wasn't helped by the fact > > the gcc x86 folks also couldnt read the pentium pro manual correctly. > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > What do you mean with this? Explain, please!
gcc told to generate i686 binaries uses cmov unconditionally. The intel PPro handbook explicitly says that cmov must be checked for.
> myself but I have also some older machines here that have a k6 or a > pentium. For mistake I installed the wrong rpm and had a non working > system. An emulation for such cases would be a _real_ feature at least
So you have a buggy rpm program. Get the rpm program fixed so it correctly stops you from doing that.
Alan -- If my call is so important to you why don't you hire some more people to answer the telephone? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |