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



On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 10:00:32PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, that was a cache miss in my brain ;)


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