[fpc-devel] Exception handling differences with Delphi

[Sergei Gorelkin]

25.11.2011 21:00, Tomas Hajny пишет:
>>
>> Isn't the fact that it's missing in i386-linux RTL more an omission of the
>> respective platform maintainer rather than a hint that it might be
>> specific to Windows (and specifically to old Windows)?
>
>
> Extending my previous comment after digging a bit more:
>
> 1) Google reveals
> (http://us.generation-nt.com/update-amd-athlon-opteron-athlon64-prefetch-errata-help-182678371.html)

Yep. Just search for 'AMD Athlon errata', not for 'AMD prefetch bug' :)

> that current Linux kernel includes a workaround for this problem (I was
> able to find the concrete kernel source file with the workaround also).
> Apparently, the problem was discovered in 2003 (already in 2.6.x Linux
> kernel series). This means that any operating systems / kernels older than
> that may suffer. I have no clue whether Microsoft included a fix into one
> of their later Windows versions / service packs, nor whether it might have
> been fixed for other operating systems (and since when).
>
Patch for kernel 2.4 is mentioned on that page, too. Together with 2.6 it probably covers all 
possible x86 Linux kernels that FPC can compile for.

Sergei