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Date:      Tue, 12 Apr 2005 03:22:28 +0200
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Cc:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Subject:   Re: mozilla's install hanging on amd64
Message-ID:  <200504120322.38262.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050411194439.GA98521@isis.sigpipe.cz>
References:  <200504102137.j3ALbm0h079084@corbulon.video-collage.com> <425AA728.7050809@samsco.org> <20050411194439.GA98521@isis.sigpipe.cz>

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On Monday, 11. April 2005 21:44, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

>     Whether that policy was "-march=3D must work" or "-march=3D is
>     unsupported"

"-march is unsupported" (existence of CPUTYPE-macro nonwithstanding) *is* a=
nd=20
*has been* the *long standing* consensus.=20

Mikhail seems to have forgotten that not too long ago, CPUTYPE was somethin=
g=20
for only the most daring would use. GCC's optimizers have seen much=20
improvement since then, but just because you can get away with always setti=
ng=20
CPUTYPE for everything much more often these days doesn't mean it's not ris=
ky=20
anymore (or we would have the resources to runtime test every port in the=20
collection with all possible CPUTYPE settings on each arch).

=2D-=20
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