Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 14:12:51 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies), freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzipped executables Message-ID: <199604192012.OAA04133@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199604191927.MAA08783@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199604190816.KAA12947@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199604191927.MAA08783@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Terry Lambert writes: > > Is anyone working on fixing the broken gzip executable feature in > > -current? > > It's a cache interaction. Pentium caches are written back inside > the cache queue depth, whereas pre-Pentium processors have > immutable cache queues. > > It can be fixed by incorporating 32 NOP's (until the next processor > revision, anyway), in part of the code. If this is the case, why did it used to work on Pentium processors? Nate
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