Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:12:21 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: i686 quirk for AMD Geode |
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On 10/03/2009 02:53 AM, Matteo Croce wrote: > > Sorry Ingo but if you read my last mail I wrote that the GEODE does > supports FCOMI but not NOPL > so i don't know if it's worth it, even is I haven't ANY binary in my > system with such instruction: > > # find /lib/tls/i686 /lib/i686 -type f |xargs objdump -d |grep -c nopl > 0
Recent gcc/binutils has been known to start to use them.
Either way, it's a user-space-visible difference, so at least the kernel will not signal anything else based on existing precedent.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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