Re: 2.4.0-test9 + Winchip2/2A processor family == hang on boot

From: Michael Meissner (meissner@spectacle-pond.org)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 11:39:55 EST


On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 02:26:08PM +0100, davej@suse.de wrote:
> I actually thought that the i686 target was the same as the i586 target
> with different instruction scheduling rules. Seems my judgement was off.
> /me goes to read gcc docs

i686 has conditional integer move and conditional floating point move, and a
few other instructions that GCC currently does not generate code for such as
atomic exchange of 8 bytes.

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