xscale-elf-gcc

Arvind Krishnaswamy arvind@CS.Arizona.EDU
Wed Feb 6 10:13:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> The -march flag does not affect the tuning of the code.  So in this case
> you will get code that is armv4 compliant (so it will run on any armv4 or
> later processor), but tuned for optimum performance on an XScale processor.
>
> To alter the tuning of the code use -mtune=<cpu>.

What does the compiler do specifically for the xscale that it doesn't for the
strongARM? Is this documented somewhere?

Thanks,
-Arvind



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