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SubjectRe: Is 386 processor still supported?
On Thu, 2009-01-15 13:32:52 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > UP emulation of CMPXCHG and XADD for userland should be rather trivial,
> > so why not include it like with LL/SC for MIPS?
>
> Why not just ship an additional libc with the right options ?

Due to another historic bug, which created libcs targeted for i386
containing the locking code for i486, as I was told back when I first
showed interest for real i386 hardware.

MfG, JBG

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