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Re: named illegal instruction on i486



On Apr 22, 2014, at 6:43, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:

> In article <20140422025233.086696b3.frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>,
> Frank Wille  <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost> wrote:
>> The disassembly shows that the CPU fails on executing the instruction
>> "lock cmpxchg...", which is only available for Pentium CPUs and higher.
>> 
>> Any idea what went wrong? Is it a general problem in libc or was named
>> built for >=Pentium?
> 
> Looks that way (our assembly files are written for >= pentium). Until
> that gets fixes, you can turn off NAMED_USE_PTHREADS.

I thought cmpxchg was available on the 486 (but not on the 386)...
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