Re: TSCs are a no-no on i386

From: Richard B. Johnson (root_at_chaos.analogic.com)
Date: 07/31/03

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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

    On Wed, 31 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote:

    > On Mer, 2003-07-30 at 21:33, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
    > > Well... For sure, I can write a LD_PRELOAD lib dealing with SIGILL, but
    > > how do I enable it for the whole system. That is, I'd need to give
    > > LD_PRELOAD=xxx at the kernel's boot prompt to have it as en environment
    > > variable for each and every process?
    >
    >
    > /etc/ld.preload
    >
    > > That sounds a tad inelegant to me. Really, I'd prefer to see libstdc++
    > > be compiled for i386 ...
    >
    > True
    >

    What is a runtime library doing with a TSC? That's the basic problem.
    These things are for operating systems and, last time I checked, the
    'C' runtime libraries weren't (but maybe GNU changed that definition, no?)

    Cheers,
    *** Johnson
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