From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 10 12:41:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA03124 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA03112 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 12:41:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA02268 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:41:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA24302; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:26:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971010212645.JR64544@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 21:26:45 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel MMX programming References: <343D7911@mail> <343DE63D.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <343DE63D.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at>; from Helmut Wirth on Oct 10, 1997 09:24:29 +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Helmut Wirth wrote: > I submitted patches for the assembler and for the debugger gdb to > support MMX instructions. The patches were submitted at the end of > March 97 but nobody was interested. They are still sitting around in the > GNATS database (gnu/3157, 97/03/31). We basically don't maintain the GNU stuff ourselves. Did you submit the patches to the gas and gdb maintainers, too? That stands a way better chance. (We actually maintain part of the stuff, but only since GNU doesn't support a.out anymore.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)