Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:16:28 +0100
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Subject: Re: AMDK6/ PPro instructions
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On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:14:21PM -0500, Dinesh Somasekhar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   Are you sure about this ?  AFAIK the AMD K6 implements the pentium
>   instruction set CMOVZ e.t.c.  are not implemented. It is the Cyrix M2
>   which implements the full pentium-pro instruction set.

As I said, I'm not sure. Pitty on AMD that they are unable to create a
reasonable cpu ;)

Until somebody corrects me I take it for granted that -march=pentiumpro
programs won't run on amd-k6 (Mark: isn't that a question for the faq ;?)

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