Re: FIXED_486_STRING ?

[Denis Zaitsev]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 02:44:06AM +0200, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 10:27:18AM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> 
>  > Dead code, it has been dead since at least 2.0.21.  Unless somebody
>  > wants to fix the string-486 code, delete FIXED_486_STRING,
>  > CONFIG_X86_USE_STRING_486 and include/asm-i386/string-486.h.
> 
> I proposed doing this a few months back, then someone stepped forward
> who had worked on these routines recently and fixed up whatever problems
> they originally exhibited.  Deleting the dead code from 2.2 / 2.4 probably
> makes sense, but it'd be nice to have the 2.5 ones fixed up.
> 
>     Dave.
> 
Yes, the special code for Pentium is important for it, as that code is
faster and shorter.  The last signature in string-486.h is of
2000/05/09, so, if this is true, the problems have not been fixed.
So, what is the real situation?  I would like to fix the code, and it
seems that I'm not alone :)