Re: Possibly a stupid question about 21164/21064 instruction diffs.

[Alvin Starr <alvin iplink net>]

On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Joachim Wesner wrote:

> Richard Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 04:34:07PM -0500, Alvin Starr wrote:
> > > I have a couple of binaries that have been generateed for a 21164. This is
> > > a problem since at this point I have a number of 21064/66 systems that I
> > > do not wish to trash.
> > 
> > There are no 21164 vs 21064 instruction differences.
> > 
> 
> Sure ???? What about Byte/Word extension (BWX) instructions ?? I thought
> this is only in EV5, EV56, PCA56 and up (>= 21164x). (IMPLVER = 1)
> 
> However, does gcc/egcs ever use those ??

Just a while ago the JDK binaries only existed in a 21164x version that
would not run on my older 21064's. These must have been produced with
either gcc or egcs.

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