config.guess/config.sub improvements
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Jan 27 22:20:00 GMT 1998
In message < Pine.HPP.3.95a.980127191758.25774G-100000@hpatl20.cern.ch >you write:
> OK, here is a new patch; the diffs are against the CVS repository.
>
> Note that this is only for the HP PA-RISC part; I have included a new
> ChangeLog entry to reflect this. Please let me know if there are any
> further problems with the patch.
Thanks. I've installed this patch.
> * On LynxOS, both RS6000 and PowerPC variants are folded to rs6000-*.
> I know the processors are supposedly similar, but are they really
> that similar? For all that I know, people here are using PPC
> boards running LynxOS, and so far I have used powerpc-* as the
> configuration string. I can rename things to rs6000-* if that
> is known to work. And yes, I have absolutely no clue about this
> platform otherwise---I just need to support gcc on it.
Yes, they are basically the same -- they share a common instrution set
which the compiler uses by default. And each rs6000/ppc variant has a
few instructions of its own, a different pipeline, etc.
jeff
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