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From: "Jessen, Per" <JesseP AT europe DOT stortek DOT com>
To: "'pgcc AT delorie DOT com'" <pgcc AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: pgcc on AMD K6
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:13:06 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Cordes [mailto:peter AT Cordes DOT Phys DOT Dal DOT Ca]
> Sent: 10 January 2000 03:20
> To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: pgcc on AMD K6
> 
> 
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Michael Widenius wrote:
> 
> > Is the cmove instruction not supported by AMD K6
>  It is apparently not.  You can see what CPUINFO said when your Linux
> kernel booted by lookin at /proc/cpuinfo.  On a PIII,

According to the AMD K6-2 and AMD K6-III data sheet, CMOV is not a K6 
instruction.
I believe the CMOVcc instruction was introduced with the PentiumPro.

See http://www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/index.html for K6 documents.


best regards,
Per Jessen, Principal Engineer, ENIDAN Technologies
http://www.enitek.com