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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 19:46:10 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra)
Cc:        Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, joelh@gnu.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on i386 memory model
Message-ID:  <199811231946.MAA25506@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981123082444.jdp@polstra.com> from "John Polstra" at Nov 23, 98 08:24:44 am

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> No.  Have you even read this thread?
> 
> This thread is about whether to expend significant effort and
> sacrifice significant elegance and maintainability in order to
> _slightly_ _optimize_ system calls for 486 systems.  It has nothing
> to do with whether we support 486 systems or not.

Sounds more like a libc compilation option anyway; we have to
maintain the old entrypoint anyway, for binary backward
compataibility.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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