Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:01:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, terry@lambert.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzipped executables Message-ID: <199604200001.RAA11279@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <2744.829956616@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 19, 96 04:30:16 pm
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> > If this is the case, why did it used to work on Pentium processors? > > It also ignores the fact that it also fails on my 486/DX2.. :-) > > Terry, I think you're totally off-base on this one and should simply > come clean on that fact before we consider entering you for this > month's Jesus Monroy award! :-) I already said that my explanation of the fix might not be the right one... did you miss that post? It has no bearing one way or the other on whether the fix works (it does), or whether the fix is a kludge (it is). I suspect the original poster was asking because they wanted it to work, and they really didn't give a damn *why* it worked. Dumping the cache queue with NOPs will make it work. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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