Change x86 default arch for 4.5?
Vincent Lefevre
vincent+gcc@vinc17.org
Mon Feb 22 02:09:00 GMT 2010
On 2010-02-22 00:02:39 +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On the other hand code compiled for an older CPU that is run a newer
> CPU will run just fine, if slightly slower than they could have due to
> not making use of new instructions in the newer CPU.
It will run, but may give unexpected or even incorrect flaoting-point
results. See the number of duplicates (some of them can involve
double rounding) in:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323
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