Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

[Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net>]

Raul Miller wrote:
> 
> On May 31, Galen Hazelwood wrote
> > Perhaps.  Anybody have any serious arguments?  I think the reason we
> > configure gcc as i486 is so it automatically optimizes for the 486; it's
> > a good middle ground.
> 
> If I remember right, configuring for pentium leaves an executable
> that might not run on 386 or 486.
> 

If gcc actually _did_ any pentium optimizations, that might be true. 
Unfortunately, we don't get that until 2.8.  (still waiting...)

--Galen


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .