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

J . A . Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Fri, 18 May 2001 20:34:46 +0200

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.

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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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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