The major exception comes in atomic locking instructions for NTPL. And that (for very good binary and source level compatibility reasons) is done in glibc, which *is* compiled to i586 or i686.
Actually, glibc is combiled as i386 or i686, with i386 version using i486 instructions in NTPL related functions (so, while rpm package claims to be i386, in reality it is i486). It would probably be less complicated and cleaner if it was simply built as i586. But that is just my opinion...
I guess I was always weak in political stuff, and from what other wrote in this (and other) threads, i386 vs i586 distro seems to belong to that category.
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