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documentation blur
- To: GCC Developers <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Subject: documentation blur
- From: Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr at jpr dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 16:58:42 -0500
The man page for gcc has:
-mcpu=cpu type
Assume the defaults for the machine type cpu type when
scheduling instructions. The choices for cpu type are i386,
i486, i586, i686, pentium, pentiumpro, k6, and athlon
While picking a specific cpu type will schedule things
appropriately for that particular chip, the compiler will
not generate any code that does not run on the i386 without
the -march=cpu type option being used. i586 is equivalent to
pentium and i686 is equivalent to pentiumpro. k6 is the AMD
chip as opposed to the Intel ones.
The sentence starting "While picking..." contains "not", once again
"not", and then "without". I don't find it all easy to understand.
In fact, I'm not sure I can properly parse it at all.
Could whoever penned that passage please rewrite it without the negative
phraseology? :-)
--
JP