Re: [rtl] Problems with RDTSC examples posted here recently

2001-11-02 Thread Chunky Kibbles
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:54:37PM -0700, John Regehr wrote: Don't forget to make sure it's __volatile__, elsewise this is the very epitome of what would produce dodgy results... Right. So method2 and method2A seem to be broken in multiple ways - forget you ever saw them. Rather, look

Re: [rtl] Problems with RDTSC examples posted here recently

2001-11-02 Thread Der Herr Hofrat
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 02:54:37PM -0700, John Regehr wrote: Don't forget to make sure it's __volatile__, elsewise this is the very epitome of what would produce dodgy results... Right. So method2 and method2A seem to be broken in multiple ways - forget you ever saw them.

Re: [rtl] unresolved symbols and kernel libraries

2001-11-02 Thread Anders Gnistrup
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 11:32:57 -0500 (EST) Calin A. Culianu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Wolfgang Denk wrote: Dear Pablo, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: That post cleared up a lot of things. I have a question: where do I go to start learning the kernel's

Re: [rtl] Problems with RDTSC examples posted here recently

2001-11-02 Thread ndrez
Method2 is broken because it gives erroneous results. In my original post I presented a small program that called three different versions of a RDTSC functions (1,2,2A) and only method 1 gave results that were in any posssible way correct. Since these are three different functions, there