On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The problem is that VIA Cyrix III announces itself (via CPUID)
> > as a "family 6" processor, i.e. i686 compatible. This is not
> > completely accurate, since it doesn't implement the conditional
> > move instruction. [Yeah, I know there's a CPUID feature flag for
>
> Intel specifically state that you cannot use CMOV without checking
> for it. Its actually a gcc/binutils tool bug. The CPU is right.
How is that a gcc bug? You tell the compiler to generate cmov, you run
it on a CPU that doesn't have it, you get what you deserve. There's
really nothing the tools can do about that.
Bernd
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