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Re: Support for i386 builds of glibc?


On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> On 03/04/2013 01:02 PM, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > 
> >> So the question I have to ask myself is: Are we willing to support
> >> i386 builds of glibc? Why? Why not?
> > 
> > At least for Linux (I don't know about Hurd), I don't think it has ever 
> > worked for NPTL (because of __sync_* operations that are only implemented 
> > for i486 and above), and since the Linux kernel has removed i386 support I 
> > don't think it would be worth trying to add such support back to glibc.
> 
> Thanks, that's enough rationale for me to consider i386 dead.
> 
> Would we want a hard error if you build with `-march=i386'?

If configured for i386, yes.  If configured for i486 or above but with a 
compiler that generates code for i386 (out-of-line __sync_* calls), add a 
-march= option.  See what I proposed in bug 10062 (and bug 10060 is 
probably the same issue).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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