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Re: "kicad" build fails on netbsd-9/i386



Am Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 06:32:14AM +0000 schrieb nia:
> The minimum architecture level on 32-bit x86 to get compiler
> support for atomic instructions is i586.

That's not true. i486 provides all important 32bit instructions like
cmpxchg. i586 adds double width CAS and that's what some software is
written to assume.

Joerg


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