Your vendor made a mistake. They shipped the wrong binary. They picked
wrong compile options - but its a beta thats why you put betas out - to
find bugs.
> Please let's not consider emulating in user land .. emulating in the kernel
> is slow enough! ;)
This may be true for the Alpha cases because unlike FPU you probably don't
get clusters of byte operations.
> BTW, for our alpha emulation patch, we were concerned about speed and not
> security (woops) .. soon we'll post another patch to fix the security.
Which is a text book reason for putting emulation in user space.
Alan
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