Subject: Re: should we be using -m486?
To: None <alexw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: John Kohl <jtk@atria.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/14/1995 11:18:05
>>>>> "Alex" == "Alex R N Wetmore" <alexw+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

Alex> Are you sure it doesn't break on 386s?  At one point AFS for NetBSD
Alex> was being compiled with -m486 and it didn't run on any of my friends
Alex> 386s until the AFS/NetBSD developer built a binary compiled without
Alex> -m486.  I thought it might use the extra one or two instructions in the
Alex> 486 instruction set...

That was not the fault of -m486; the problem was due to a missing
#define in the way the code pulled in kernel byte swapping routines.
Once libafs was built with -DI386_CPU, things started working much
better :)

==John