From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 16:05:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01999 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 16:05:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt050n33.san.rr.com [204.210.31.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01992 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 16:05:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07443; Sat, 2 May 1998 15:58:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <354BA519.B617E5EC@san.rr.com> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 15:58:33 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0426 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jose M. Alcaide" CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is gcc's option "-m486" convenient for Pentium II ? References: <35483813.1E209EAE@we.lc.ehu.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > Hello folks, > > Gcc has a "-m486" option that may be used to generate code > optimized for 486 instead of 386. However, I don't trust Intel > in any way, and I'm not sure that the 486-optimized code will run > faster that the 386-optimized one on a Pentium II. Does anybody > know about this question? Simple, if you are not running the code on a '486, don't use the -486 flag. :) Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message