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Re: mcpu and/or march

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:33:19PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:57:06PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>>
>>>Packaging gmp lead me to think this: can a processor a little better
>>>than "386" be assumed on Cygwin users?
>>>(i.e. used to build a package?)
>>
>>I think that these days we require at least a 486, yes.
>
>In 2000, DJ wrote: "Please do not break older systems."
>
>http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2000-07/msg00037.html (contains a
>reply to DJ; DJ's original message is not in the archives).
>
>Just a data point -- that WAS three years ago, after all.

I've already done that with the "new" Interlocked* functions which, I
believe, don't work on i386.  Those were turned on by default on
2002-12-14.

cgf
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