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Date:      Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:12:51 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies), freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gzipped executables
Message-ID:  <199604192012.OAA04133@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199604191927.MAA08783@phaeton.artisoft.com>
References:  <199604190816.KAA12947@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199604191927.MAA08783@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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Terry Lambert writes:
> > Is anyone working on fixing the broken gzip executable feature in
> > -current?
> 
> It's a cache interaction.  Pentium caches are written back inside
> the cache queue depth, whereas pre-Pentium processors have
> immutable cache queues.
> 
> It can be fixed by incorporating 32 NOP's (until the next processor
> revision, anyway), in part of the code.

If this is the case, why did it used to work on Pentium processors?


Nate



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