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Re: when did support for i686 begin
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: Hunter Peress <hu dot peress at mail dot mcgill dot ca>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 14:41:15 -0800
- Subject: Re: when did support for i686 begin
- References: <1041537682.9765.22.camel@HillCountryPeress>
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:01:21PM -0600, Hunter Peress wrote:
> I dont mean...when was gcc compilable on i686. I mean, when did it start
> having a flag for it...
>
> eg:
> i386 Options
> -m486 -mno-486 -msoft-float -mno-fp-ret-in-387
>
> But for i686.
Hard to determine, since it predates the use of CVS.
> from word of mouth (eg irc probing), it seems like it only began in 3.2,
> i dont believe this. And after searching gcc's site on gnu.org for a
> _while_, its too complex.
*Much* earlier than that, e.g. pre-1996.
That's not to say that the i686 code generated by circa-1996 gcc's was
any good ...