GNAT and NPTL (3.3?)

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Wed Apr 30 12:41:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 08:34:27AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > if you have i686+ cpu and a kernel with threading monster patch (or a 2.5
> > kernel) it'll use nptl, else linuxthreads.
> 
> Do you know why it doesn't use nptl for lesser cpus?

NPTL doesn't support i386 (because of lack of cmpxchg, only supports i486+),
and we ship only i386 and i686 variants.

	Jakub



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