Re: [BK/PATCH] better i386 compiler flags

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 09:52:52 EST

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On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 11:29:39PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 12:06:02AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> > As a heads up, judging from gcc-patches, it seems that the gcc folks are
> > changing -march over to -mtune at some point soon. I can't fathom the
> > reasoning behind this other than causing a PITA for users.
> No, -mcpu -> -mtune. Reason: mcpu means different things
> to different targets, and it's confusing.

Ah, right. It's still going to make the checkgcc macros in
arch/i386/Makefile get even more 'interesting' though 8-)

Dave

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