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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:12:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
Cc:        qa@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org, Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: cputype=486
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010312101239.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010312061417.A6615@lerami.lerctr.org>

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On 12-Mar-01 Larry Rosenman wrote:
> * Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> [010312 05:53]:
>> * Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [010312 02:35]:
>> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:31:35AM -0600, Mike Pritchard wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Somewhat.  I have a box that has one of those overdrive chips in it, but
>> > > it still claims to be a 486-class machine.  It runs current, however,
>> > > and
>> > > not stable.  Actually, I have two of those machines.  One is running a
>> > > 12 hour old -current.  The other is running a 4.0-current from 10/24/99.
>> > > 
>> > > I'll try upgrading the oldest machine to -stable and doing a "make
>> > > world"
>> > > and see what happens.  This may take most of the week, since a make
>> > > world
>> > > takes forever on one these machines, and my free time to check up on
>> > > this is
>> > > very limited.  If anyone else has a true 486 running -stable and wants
>> > > to follow up on this, feel free.
>> > 
>> > Okay - whatever you can do to check. Thanks.
>> I last built the 486 on 2/18/2001, if that helps narrow down
>> what commit(s) broke it. 
>> 
>> Larry
> 
> Here is a gdb of strip starting.  I suspect the cmova is an illegal
> 486 instruction ...
> Cut from below:
> 0x804fd7a <isatty+1638>:      cmova  0x8(%ebp),%eax

It is, it's only on pentium-pro's and later.  Were any of the libraries or
compilers, etc. compiled with a bogus CPUTYPE?  I'm pretty sure isatty is in
one of the libraries, libc even.

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