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"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Aug 23 22:15:54 CEST 2004 
Michael Hudson wrote:
> No, this definitely makes sense to me.  I'd prefer to call the macro
> something more transparent, though.  One of the other things I didn't
> do when porting this stuff to PPC was changing the names so that it's
> less Pentium specific.  Patches welcome :-)

I'd like to stress that last point. Ilya, please do consider
contributing a patch. As you say, it is technically trivial, but
probably too much effort for any by-standing volunteer. I only committed
the original patch because I considered the feature "mostly harmless",
and because it had been sitting on SF for several years. I certainly
won't touch this unless
a) somebody reports a REAL bug, and Jeremy doesn't fix that, or
b) somebody contributes another patch.

Actually writing a patch, and testing it (including the two
recompilations that will take) is too much effort, so I rather
write a longish email seeking volunteers...

Regards,
Martin
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