Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:46:51 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Is 386 processor still supported? |
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On Thu, 2009-01-15 13:32:52 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > UP emulation of CMPXCHG and XADD for userland should be rather trivial, > > so why not include it like with LL/SC for MIPS? > > Why not just ship an additional libc with the right options ?
Due to another historic bug, which created libcs targeted for i386 containing the locking code for i486, as I was told back when I first showed interest for real i386 hardware.
MfG, JBG
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