Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:04:53 +0800 From: Deng XueFeng <dsnofe@hotmail.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is this LOST?? Message-ID: <20040504090033.B046.DSNOFE@hotmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200405031322.37241.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040502132115.C583.DSNOFE@hotmail.com> <200405031322.37241.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:26 am, Deng XueFeng wrote: > > I found the htonl implemention in libc for i386 is not sync with the > > kern. > > > > sys use bswap for swaping the int. but libc still use xchg. > > IS THIS LOST? > > It's because libc still supports 80386 which doesn't have bswap (introduced on > the 486 IIRC). The kernel only supports 486+ unless you explicitly build an > 80386 kernel, which won't use bswap for htonl(). Since 5-current kernel do not support 80386. why keep libc(5-current) support 80386? and if wanna 80386 support, 4-stable can do that. Sincerely, Deng XueFeng
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