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Re: recognize x86 CPU variants take II
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
- To: Jan Hubicka <jh at suse dot cz>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 03:12:35 +1100
- Subject: Re: recognize x86 CPU variants take II
- References: <20011211124354.A29171@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On 11-Dec-2001, Jan Hubicka <jh@suse.cz> wrote:
> ! for the ABI and the set of available instructions. The choices for
> ! @var{cpu-type} are @samp{i386}, @samp{i486}, @samp{i586}, @samp{i686},
> ! @samp{pentium}, @samp{pentium-mmx}, @samp{pentiumpro}, @samp{pentium2},
> ! @samp{pentium3}, @samp{pentium4}, @samp{k6}, @samp{k6-2}, @samp{k6-3},
> ! @samp{athlon}, @samp{athlon-tbird}, @samp{athlon4}, @samp{athlon-xp},
> ! @samp{athlon-mobile} and @samp{athlon-mp}.
I think it's potentially a little confusing to mention both `i686'
and `pentium' without explaining that these are synonyms.
So I suggest adding ` (which is a synonynm for @samp{i686})'
after `@samp{pentium}', or something along those lines.
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