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Re: This week's summary
From:
Sean O'Rourke
Date:
June 24, 2003 06:15
Subject:
Re: This week's summary
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.32.0306240612250.5856-100000@gradlab.ucsd.edu
On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
> Piers Cawley <p6summarizer@bofh.org.uk> wrote:
> > He's worried that the P6C tests
> > break,
>
> ... albeit this is still an issue. Nobody answered, if we need another
> Sub class implementing the old invoke/ret scheme ...
I'd say "no". P6C is now compiling to an obsolete architecture.
While we should all step back and be impressed at how well Intel has
maintained backward compatibility in the x86, there's no particular
reason we should do so ourselves. Rather, someone (me) needs to port
P6C to the new machine.
> > Whee! My first anniversary!
>
> Congrats and thanks for your great summaries.
Seconded.
/s