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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:33:12 -0800
From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Where is it written?
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:33:34PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> AFAIK, I think Linus tried this once, but ran into bugs in gcc.
> We might very well try again in 2.5.

You'll definitely have to use a compiler later than gcc 2.95, since
there were in fact major bugs in this area.  I'd be interested in
hearing bug reports from someone trying with current cvs sources.


r~
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