gcc 3.4.1 and CPU optimization

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Zbigniew Łuszpiński <zbiggy@o2.pl> writes:

> I have idea how to solve this problem. We can not fix all the scripts on this 
> planet. So gcc should be fixed. I think that future version of gcc should 
> have a new configuration file. For example gcc.permanent.conf. In this file 
> an user could setup and configure all the user's default settings which 
> should be used instead of those from command line (which are created by 
> script or user). Options in such file have the highest priority and 
> overwrites these one provided via command line. Such file could clean up 
> parameters chaos made by scripts and users.

Current versions of gcc already support options to the configure
script which can do this: --with-cpu, --with-arch, --with-tune.  This
set the defaults for a particular configuration of gcc.  These are
documented here:
    http://gcc.gnu.org/install/configure.html

Ian