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Date:      Tue, 6 Apr 1999 08:30:13 +0000
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Daniel Berlin <root@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: EGCS optimizations
Message-ID:  <l03020923b32f750157f4@[194.32.164.2]>
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.SGI.4.05.9904060207290.5124-100000@danberlin.resnet.rochester.edu>
References:  <199904060525.WAA04269@apollo.backplane.com>

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Hi,

At 2:15 am -0700 6/4/99, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>Also, -mpentiumpro will actually usually generate WORSE code for a pentium
>pro.
>-mpentium and -march=pentium do better at it.

OK, but according to man cc:

>NAME
>       gcc, g++ - GNU project C and C++ Compiler (egcs-1.1.2)
[...]
>       -mpentium
>              Synonym for -mcpu=pentium
[...]
>	   Specifying  -march=cpu
>              type implies -mcpu=cpu type.

If this is right, then -mpentium is redundant in the presence of
-march=pentium.


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