Re: APIC, AMD-K6/2 -mcpu=586...

From: J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 13:34:46 EST

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On 05.18 Bill Pringlemeir wrote:
>
> Why don't the build scripts run a dummy file to determine where the
> floating point registers should be placed?
>
> ...
> const int value = offsetof(struct task_struct, thread.i387.fxsave) & 15;
> ...
>

That is not the problem. The problem is that the registers have to lay
in a defined way, transcribed to a C struct, and that pgcc lays badly that
struct.

-- J.A. Magallon # Let the source be with you... mailto:jamagallon@able.es Linux Mandrake release 8.1 (Cooker) for i586 Linux werewolf 2.4.4-ac11 #2 SMP Fri May 18 12:27:06 CEST 2001 i686

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