From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 14 8:53:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D33AC152B4 for ; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA32758; Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:50:11 -0700 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 08:50:11 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: port-alpha@netbsd.org, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: 264 binaries ok? SRM_CHECK available for linux? (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org raising the issue for anyone with concerns ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 14 Apr 1999 13:16:40 +0300 From: Harvey J. Stein Reply-To: axp-list@redhat.com To: axp-list@redhat.com Subject: 264 binaries ok? SRM_CHECK available for linux? Resent-Date: 14 Apr 1999 10:39:40 -0000 Resent-From: axp-list@redhat.com Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; I just found this on the openvms page: (http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/21264_CONSIDERATIONS.html) Ensuring Proper Use of Interlocked Memory Instructions The Alpha Architecture Reference Manual, Third Edition (AARM) describes strict rules for using interlocked memory instructions. The forthcoming Alpha 21264 (EV6) processor and all future Alpha processors are more stringent than their predecessors in their requirement that these rules be followed. As a result, code that has worked in the past despite noncompliance may now fail when executed on systems featuring the new 21264 processor. Does anyone know if this is relevant to gcc on linux? The above page includes a tool which finds inconsistencies in a binary (on VMS systems, of course): http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/srm_check.exe Does anyone know if such a thing is needed and/or available for Linux? I didn't find any such caveats on the "Tru64 Unix" pages. -- Harvey J. Stein BFM Financial Research hjstein@bfr.co.il -- To unsubscribe: send e-mail to axp-list-request@redhat.com with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Do not send it to axp-list@redhat.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message