[PATCH] Rs6000 infrastructure cleanup (switches), revised patch #2c
Gunther Nikl
gnikl@users.sourceforge.net
Thu Oct 4 16:33:00 GMT 2012
Michael Meissner schrieb:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 10:13:25AM +0200, Gunther Nikl wrote:
>> Michael Meissner wrote:
>>> Segher Boessenkool asked me on IRC to break out the fix in the last change.
>>> This patch is just the change to set the default options if the user did not
>>> use -mcpu=<xxx> and the compiler was not configured with --with-cpu=<xxx>.
>>> Here are the patches.
>> Which GCC releases are affected by this bug?
>
> All of them.
So this bug is as old as the rs6000 port has PowerPC support? Then GCC
2.95 is also affected?
> Now, in general users don't see this bug, because distribution maintainers
> usually build with an explicit --with-cpu= option, which sets the default
> CPU in case the user did not use -mcpu=<xxx> on the command line. If neither
> option was used, the default "powerpc" or "powerpc64" is usually good enough.
I am not a distribution user. I have a private PPC port which I always
build without an explicit --with-cpu= option. This option seemed to be
redundant with PROCESSOR_DEFAULT and TARGET_DEFAULT in the target
config file. I will alter my build procedure.
Regards,
Gunther
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