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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:24:12 +0000
From:      Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
To:        Aaron Lewis <aaron.lewis1989@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU
Message-ID:  <3a142e751002280624w6f38d297o65b88301b3e5f8d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B8A63D5.90104@gmail.com>
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On 2/28/10, Aaron Lewis <aaron.lewis1989@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>     I gonna recompile kernel for my core2 CPU , so i'd like to pass some
> flags to gcc.
>     Kinds of "-march=core2" , i tried to modify /etc/make.conf
>
>     e.g    CFLAGS += -march=core2 -O20 -ffast-math -mfpmath=sse
>     But it fails .. bad arch switch , core2 cpu is not supported ?
It is bad idea to compile kernel with custom flags. And gcc in FreeBSD
doesn't know about core2,
use 'native' if you must.

>
>     And is that useful to let gcc select cpu specified asm code ?

Only for some userland stuff like openssl.



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