2.95.1: -march defaults to pentium

Florian Weimer fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
Wed Sep 22 02:11:00 GMT 1999


GNU C version 2.95.1 19990816 (release) (i686-pc-linux-gnu) compiled by GNU C version 2.95.1 19990816 (release).
options passed: 
options enabled:  -fpeephole -ffunction-cse -fkeep-static-consts
 -fpcc-struct-return -fcommon -fgnu-linker -fargument-alias -fident -m80387
 -mhard-float -mno-soft-float -mieee-fp -mfp-ret-in-387 -mschedule-prologue
 -mcpu=pentiumpro -march=pentium
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The Info documentation suggests that this means that code compiled
with gcc 2.95.1 on i686 machines might not run on an i386 or i486.
If this is really true, I doubt that this a feature. ;)


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