On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 07:14:58PM +0200, Bernd Sieker wrote:
> Enabling DUMMY_NOPS eliminates the nops in i/o, which are only
> neccessary on some very old machines.

How do you know if it is safe on an old machine to enable DUMMY_NOPS?
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Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/

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