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Re: RFC: New approach to --with-cpu
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- Cc: drow at mvista dot com (Daniel Jacobowitz), Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 14:29:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: RFC: New approach to --with-cpu
- Organization: ARM Ltd.
- Reply-to: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
> My preference would be to leave things as they are and use --with-schedule.
> -mschedule relates directly to the scheduling model. The option value is PA
> specific anyway. We also have a whole bunch of other oddball -m options
> which affect bits in the target flags.
But why would a *user* of the compiler want to use a different set of
'cost' metrics in another part of the compiler from the 'cost' metrics
used by the scheduler?
R.