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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Bill Pringlemeir <bpringle@sympatico.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APIC, AMD-K6/2 -mcpu=586...
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 20:34:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010518203446.A1066@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2u22ibww6.fsf@sympatico.ca> <m2d796twqe.fsf@sympatico.ca>
In-Reply-To: <m2d796twqe.fsf@sympatico.ca>; from bpringle@sympatico.ca on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 19:04:09 +0200


On 05.18 Bill Pringlemeir wrote:
> 
> Why don't the build scripts run a dummy file to determine where the 
> floating point registers should be placed?
> 
> ...
> const int value = offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.i387.fxsave) & 15;
> ...
> 

That is not the problem. The problem is that the registers have to lay
in a defined way, transcribed to a C struct, and that pgcc lays badly that
struct.

-- 
J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
mailto:jamagallon@able.es
Linux Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac11 #2 SMP Fri May 18 12:27:06 CEST 2001 i686


  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-18 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-18 13:38 APIC, AMD-K6/2 -mcpu=586 Bill Pringlemeir
2001-05-18 17:04 ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-05-18 18:34   ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-05-18 18:47     ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-05-18 19:20       ` Bill Pringlemeir

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