Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 20:49:42 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@peedub.muc.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF world and MFS / groff issues Message-ID: <199809071849.UAA03678@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Sep 1998 02:17:59 %2B1000." <199809071617.CAA05252@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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Bruce Evans writes: >>> You mean, it is known to show that broken code is broken. Both -m486 >>> and -O3 are normally pessimizations. Don't use them. >> >>Why is -m486 a pessimization? > >It enlarges the code a little to do even less. Useless code pushes >useful code out of the caches. > I seem to remember a mail from BDE, lo these many moons ago, in which he stated that -m486 -malign-loops=0 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 was the optimal thing to use for a pentium with the stock gcc. Is that no longer true ? What would be better ? --- Gary Jennejohn Home - garyj@muc.de Work - garyj@fkr.dec.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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