From owner-freebsd-current Fri Apr 19 17:05:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA12437 for current-outgoing; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:05:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA12432 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA11279; Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:01:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604200001.RAA11279@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: gzipped executables To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 17:01:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: nate@sri.MT.net, terry@lambert.org, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2744.829956616@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 19, 96 04:30:16 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > If this is the case, why did it used to work on Pentium processors? > > It also ignores the fact that it also fails on my 486/DX2.. :-) > > Terry, I think you're totally off-base on this one and should simply > come clean on that fact before we consider entering you for this > month's Jesus Monroy award! :-) I already said that my explanation of the fix might not be the right one... did you miss that post? It has no bearing one way or the other on whether the fix works (it does), or whether the fix is a kludge (it is). I suspect the original poster was asking because they wanted it to work, and they really didn't give a damn *why* it worked. Dumping the cache queue with NOPs will make it work. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.