Jan-Benedict Glaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 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 > > So we now suffer from a former bug?
Yes and no. We see the effects from a former bug, but we are not suffering (atleast, I'm not :-) This bug went unnoticed (or unreported) for several GCC releases, which hints as how widely i386 machines are still used with current software... > Debian is constantly recompiling it's packages (at least for unstable), > and I assume other distributors are doing basically the same. As we > already had (official) ABI changes (C++ comes to mind again) and where > now a (hopefully correct) i386 version is available, can't we all > (Debian and non-Debian) do as we did it the last time (TM)? Unfortunately, the LSB and other relevant specs are silent on this specific issue. Most other vendors support only i586+, anyway, and would not agree to a change that would require them to recompile, yielding binary incompatibility with earlier versions of their own releases. > After all argueing/ranting, there seem to be two outcomings. Either have > an own i386 distro or work on the emulator (for 2.6.x). I've started > with the emulator, but it doesn't work yet. Indeed. Regards, Martin
