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Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: Gerald Pfeifer <gerald at pfeifer dot com>, "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap at osdl dot org>,Jeffrey A Law <law at redhat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 20:29:28 -0500
- Subject: Re: What to call Intel ia32e processor?
- References: <20040227095313.774f51d2.rddunlap@osdl.org> <200402271810.i1RIAFUY026396@speedy.slc.redhat.com> <20040227101517.0d12635f.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20040227185212.GA13956@lucon.org> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0402292037150.67370@acrux.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> <20040301004614.GA7220@lucon.org>
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 04:46:14PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:40:15PM +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > > Currently, when you configure gcc for x86_64-linux, it will tune for
> > > K8. I want a new target, which will tune for Intel ia32e processor by
> > > default. I am using ia32e-linux for the time being.
> >
> > That way a lot of software won't recognize that beast at _all_, neither
> > as i386 nor as amd64 compatible.
>
> I only want it for gcc and you have to use it by hand like
>
> # ../configure ia32e-linux
>
> which will configure gcc to tune for Intel ia32e processor by default.
> Nothing else will be affected.
You could do this the way _EVERY OTHER TARGET_ besides x86 does it,
with --with-cpu. Which works for x86, by the way.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer