Re: Noob question. Why is the for-pentium4 kernel built with-march=i686 ?

[Jan Engelhardt]

>Also, I believe that the -march=pentium4 option /was/ actually used up
>until kernel 2.6.10 where it was dropped because of a risk that some
>versions of gcc would cause the kernel to use SSE registers for data
>movement (which is a no-no).

In that case, -mno-sse should have been used.



Jan Engelhardt
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