Re: [Q] Looking for an emulation for CMOV* instructions.

From: Alistair Riddell (ali@gwc.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 18:25:56 EST

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On 11 Jan 2002, Ronald Wahl wrote:

> is it possible to include an emulation for the CMOV* (and possible other
> i686 instructions) for processors that dont have these (k6, pentium

Where does it stop? Perhaps we should emulate PPC and Sparc instructions
in the kernel, in case the sysadmin installs wrong architecture
package....

;-)

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