Re: default CPU target for ix86 based ports
Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> writes:
> Am I wrong or did we, "forced" because we wanted to be binary compatible
> to some major distributions, just follow others and doing optimization
> just as they did?
You are wrong. There are two versions of atomicity.h, one for i486+,
and the other for i386+ (at the time the other distributors released
their compilers, there was only the i486+ version, and it was assumed
to work for i386+, but didn't). The two versions are
binary-incompatible, providing the same feature using entirely
different data structures. As everybody else is using the i486+
version (given that no other version existed when they released their
systems), Debian needs to follow, for binary compatibility.
Regards,
Martin
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