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authorRickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>2010-09-21 16:38:56 +0200
committerRickard Green <rickard@erlang.org>2010-10-29 18:20:09 +0200
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Add pre pentium 4 compatibilty configure test
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@@ -277,7 +277,8 @@ Some of the available `configure` options are:
x86 processors before pentium 4 (back to 486) in the ethread library. If
not passed the ethread library (part of the runtime system) will use
instructions that first appeared on the pentium 4 processor when building
- for x86.
+ for x86. This option will be automatically enabled if required on the
+ build machine.
* `--with-libatomic_ops=PATH` - Use the `libatomic_ops` library for atomic
memory accesses. If `configure` should inform you about no native atomic
implementation available, you typically want to try using the