Re: gcc 2.8.0 seems OK here...

Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbj@image.dk)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 16:22:23 +0100 (CET)

> Marek> On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote:
>
> >> The option -mpentium doesn't affect the instruction
> >> scheduling. Those with problems have used -march=pentium (have you
> >> tried that.)
> Marek> Exatctly. The -mpentium flag merely instructs gcc to output
> Marek> i586 opcodes, but the code isn't optimized any more than with
> Marek> the usual -m486 (save for the opcodes, of course)
>
> Contrariwise. From the gcc manual:
[...]

Your right, I must have been asleep while I wrote that :-)
-mpentium (= -mcpu=pentium) does the scheduling, but gives only i386
opcodes. -march=pentium gives pentium opcodes.

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