On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 12:46:52PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi Ben, > > > So you verified that after removing that file, and recompiling all > > worked well? Did you also run the testsuite? > > Paulus found this bug a long time ago when porting to power3. At the moment > we binary edit libc and insert some strategic nops :) > > > Did this just occur, or has it always been that way? I ask, because I > > see no changes to that since 2.2.0 release of glibc. > > It has always been a problem, memset(,0,) should take into consideration the > cacheline size but does not. > > > If this is the only difference between powerpc and power3, then the > > only choice I have is to remove this file for powerpc as a generic > > solution (I cannot create two sets of libs for ppc and power3). > > Ben Herrenschmidt has a fix to export the cacheline size from the kernel > using aux entries. Glibc may already have support for this.
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