> On Sun, Dec 13, 1998 at 01:39:51PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:
> >
> > > Yes it does. BTW, GNU is recommending the -m{cpu name} not be used as it is
> > > going to be fazed out in the future. The new style
> > > is -mcpu=pentium, -mcpu=pentiumpro. (also -mcpu=586,686 if I remember
> > > correctly)
> > > And pegcs has -mamdk6 for the AMD K6, and I think another one for Cyrixes
> > > too.
>
> And egcs has one, too, but its named -mk6
>
I think pgcc supports this one too, but if I remember correctly it uses
experimental code unlike amdk6. Perhaps the egcs one is experiment too
and pgcc just inherits it from egcs.
> Even worse, the pgcc snapshots now also use -mk6, while the releases
> retain -mamdk6
>
> > What is pegcs and where can I find it? I regretfully don't have the
>
> http://www.goof.com/pcg/
>
> > > BTW, according to pgcc's web site to get the maximum, safe, optimizations
> > > using their compiler you should use the -O6 option.
> >
> > Okay, will be set in next patch version.
>
> A better phrase for -O6 would be "maximum, not-break-everything optimizations"
>
> > > The pentium and pentium pro options appeared in gcc 2.8.0, which is what
> > > egcs is based on, and pgcc is an addon to egcs.
>
> Not quite, -mpentium appeared in pgcc, and I believe -mpentiumpro also. The
> next compiler that used it was egcs. Gcc was the last one of the gcc family
> with these switches.
>
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