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Date:      Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:02:54 -0500
From:      David Schultz <das@freebsd.org>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r227538 - head/tools/build
Message-ID:  <20111116060254.GA2460@zim.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <69610C67-D009-48B1-85A5-167D5E7CCFE3@xcllnt.net>
References:  <201111152015.pAFKFwqb015331@svn.freebsd.org> <4EC2CFDD.7070206@FreeBSD.org> <20111115211449.GA476@zim.MIT.EDU> <69610C67-D009-48B1-85A5-167D5E7CCFE3@xcllnt.net>

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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Nov 15, 2011, at 1:14 PM, David Schultz wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> >> Note all the final executables will use 'real' atomic operations.  That
> >> is, unless you compile with CPUTYPE?=i386, and I wish you the best of
> >> luck in that case, you'll need it. :)
> > 
> > I thought we dropped support for anything less than a 486DX years ago.
> 
> That's besides the point. GCC by default targets i386 on older
> FreeBSD versions, which means that GCC does not expand atomic
> operations inline and simple emits calls for them. It's all
> about how GCC behaves and it has nothing to do with whether we
> support 80386 CPUs or not.

Understood.  I didn't realize that nobody dragged the default gcc
target into the 1990's until 2009.



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