SPE configuration in GCC

[Mark Mitchell]

Olivier Hainque wrote:
> Stan Shebs wrote:
> 
>>>Any thoughts from the broader community?
>>
>>All variants, please. Users want things to "just work", and that's
>>easier to manage if they can just specify an option to choose their
>>chip, rather than doing configure/make incantations, which is harder
>>to get right for embedded.
> 
>  
>  Agreed.
> 
>  Would there be a strong rule as to what is/should-be selected as the default
>  variant ?  Something like "What generates supported instructions in most
>  cases", for instance (this is only a rough tentative formulation, obviously).

I'm not sure.  I think that it might vary a lot by processor family.

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