X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Please help resurrecting GDB for version 7.0 release Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 11:45:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <83zldveryw DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> <684bdd55-b464-4e61-b28e-28774dc6ced8 AT o27g2000vbd DOT googlegroups DOT com> <83y6tfem02 DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> <_ZKdnV74euw2-2HUnZ2dnUVZ_uednZ2d AT earthlink DOT com> <83ws8zeb05 DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> <83skjldt35 DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> <58b10f6a-eba5-4cc2-bef8-cc5fc4251e06 AT q2g2000vbr DOT googlegroups DOT com> <83fxfkdz2n DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> <000b187c-f14b-4f37-81ca-0d93f4e1b2e1 AT g20g2000vba DOT googlegroups DOT com> <83eiv3e71o DOT fsf AT gnu DOT org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1241549124 27634 127.0.0.1 (5 May 2009 18:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com Injection-Info: t10g2000vbg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hi, On May 5, 1:30=A0pm, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Rugxulo > > Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 22:08:44 -0700 (PDT) > > > > Yes, and then test a lot on old machines which I don't even know wher= e > > > to find. =A0 > > > What old machines in particular? Just cpu revisions or OSes or both?? > > That depends on the method you use for detecting the CPU. =A0If you use > no privileged instructions, there should be no reason to test under > different OSes, I think. =A0Otherwise, yes. Then why do we need to test a bunch of machines? If we're just using CPUID (which we check for before using), it's no problem. It's just the "enable SSE" part that needs privileged instructions, and that's probably not much of an issue for you, esp. since we prefer CWSDPMI anyways, which supports it.