Re: egcs 2.91.66 ix86 problems...

[Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>]

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   > > A common sense rule says that using -mcpu=i486 should *not* define
>   > > __i486__, because we don't want to use i486 specific code, we are only
>   > > interested in the scheduler modifications.
>   > 
>   > I second the motion that this is a bug in gcc.  Any one else?
> Well, the other interpretation is that those defines can be used by the
> user to select one of N code sequences which work across the various
> machines.

You are saying here about machine code differences, and this is not what
-mcpu=i486 is documented to do.

> Really we need *two* flags, one pass along the -marh= and another to pass
> along -mcpu= as defines the user can check.  That removes the ambiguity
> we currently have.

That would be great as well. Any chance of getting some of this fixed?

Thanks,

Cristian
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