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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Error in x86 CPU capabilities starting with test5/6
To: andrea@suse.de (Andrea Arcangeli)
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 05:31:35 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <20001117192834.A30047@athlon.random> from "Andrea Arcangeli" at Nov 17, 2000 07:28:34 PM
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> As about the broken calling conventions of the IA32 ABI, I think it
> doesn't worth to break the binary compatibility at this late stage.

We are not at any late stage. The new 64-bit PC processors might
be accepted about as well as Microchannel and EISA were accepted.
Crummy old 32-bit processors will be around much longer than we'd
like them to be.

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