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Re: Bug in strlen on old MIPS CPUs
On Jan 10 12:01, Steve Legg wrote:
> > As for the actual condition, looking into the GCC sources I found this:
> >
> > /* Which processor to schedule for. Since there is no difference
> > between
> > a R2000 and R3000 in terms of the scheduler, we collapse them into
> > just an R3000. [...] */
> >
> > This means, there's no default definitions for the R2000, just for the
> > R3000 ("R3000" and "_R3000").
>
> Ah, okay - I didn't check that - that makes it a lot simpler then! afaik the r2000 wasn't really used very much anyway (but possibly there are variants that were).
>
> > So, apparently all CPUs with mips1 ISA with the exception of R3900 are
> > affected, which just leaves R2000 and R3000.
> >
> > Consequentially just using `#ifdef _R3000' should cover this situation,
> > shouldn't it?
>
> Yes, sounds like it should do - certainly all MIPS CPUs from R4000 upwards do not have the same problem (if they require a load delay then the pipeline has an interlock so you just get a one cycle stall).
I applied a patch. Please test.
Thanks,
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
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