On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:49:30AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

 > In article <200302091827.40875.mlist@beholder.homeunix.net>
 > mlist@beholder.homeunix.net wrote:
 > 
 > > I noticed that there is pthread code for sh5 under the arch directory.  
 > > Considering it's the same processor family (I'm assuming nearly the same 
 > > instruction set), could that code be used to get pthreads working?
 > 
 > I guess they are similar like i386 and x86_64,
 > but also there would be some differences among them.
 > (so they are different port.)

No, the SH5 is a completely different architecture, though it has the
capability of executing SH3/SH4 code (that is the "SHcompact" ISA,
whereas the SH5 natively uses the new "SHmedia" ISA).

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