Re: i486 emu in mainline?

Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23T07:13:36Z

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On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 01:40, 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?
>

on first look it seems to be missing a bunch of get_user() calls and
does direct access instead....

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