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Re: config.sub pentium2 and pentiumii aliases (fwd)
- To: Torbjorn Granlund <tege at swox dot com>
- Subject: Re: config.sub pentium2 and pentiumii aliases (fwd)
- From: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay at gnu dot org>
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 22:48:43 +0000 (UTC)
- cc: Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay at gnu dot org>, Ben Elliston <bje at cygnus dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, user42 at zip dot com dot au
- Organization: inter/open Labs
> How about simply calling pentium2 "pentium2"? We could also call
> pentium3 "pentium3", and pentiumpro "pentiumpro". Do you get the
> idea? :-)
One word: Trademarks :-)
> Some packages might want to make a distinction between exact CPU
> types. GMP is one such package, where there has a very significant
> speed advantage,
tbh, I don't think it's config.guess/config.sub's job to figure this out -
I think there should be specific autoconf tests for specific CPU
type. Splitting the ix86 family of chips up for generic configury always
seemed to be a bizarre idea, as the majority applications treat i[34567]86
as a single type of CPU.
But, as this wasn't done in the first place, I doubt it will happen any
time soon, so I'll shut up ;)
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Mo McKinlay
mmckinlay@gnu.org
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