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Re: Automatic architecture optimization
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 14:47, Matt Fago wrote:
> Eric Christopher wrote:
> >>Are there cases when for example -march=pentium3 would not be
> >>appropriate (on this processor)?
> >
> > If you're building something that you wish to run on any x86 processor?
>
> Well, that's why they're called compiler _options_.
>
> It's easier for the user of a code (or a configure script) to use
> "-march" or "-O4" or whatever. I was curious as to why there isn't a
> standard flag in gcc.
Because no one has decided it was useful enough to write support yet. If
you do I suggest you write the support.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>