Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 13:59:36 +0200 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: i486 emu in mainline? |
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On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 06:51:30AM -0400, Joseph Fannin wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 10:29:12AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:40:59AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >> These days gcc uses i486+ only instruction by default in libstdc++ so > >> most modern distros wouldn't work on i386 cpus anymore. To make it work > >> again Debian merged Willy Tarreau's patch to trap those and emulate them > >> on real i386 cpus. The patch is extremely non-invasive and would > >> certainly be usefull for mainline. Any reason not to include it? > > > > - I couldn't emulate locks, so this will break on SMP systems, and so > > will it if you need to access some memory share with an external > > microcontroller or something like that. > > Does this mean that programs that use the NPTL will work on > non-SMP 386s?
I have no idea. Why would NPTL not work on i386 ?
Willy
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