On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:16:11AM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote: > On 2006-08-31 Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 11:30:58PM +0200, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > > > It was downgraded, I guess, to enable the propagation of the last > > > > mysql security uploads to testing. The problem affects only us, the > > > > "second class" citizens that have old machines. It was tagged > > > > "wontfix" because Christian Hammers (the mysql maintainer) believes > > > > that it won't be fixed by upstream. I tend to agree with him with > > > > regret. > > > Yes, upstream won't disable assembler optimization as the problem only > > > occurs only on very early i486 and clones like Cyrix, not even on most > > > real i486. There are just too a few of you unlucky guys left :) > > AFAIK it's not required to disable the assembler -- it's only required to > > handle the illegal instruction? > You volunteer to write the patch or know an assembler coder? ;-) > I doubt that MySQL spends time for it. Neither, sorry. It's just my understanding that this illegal instruction can be trapped and handled. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
