Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs
Galen Hazelwood <galenh@micron.net> writes:
> 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.
I think the only optimization gcc 2.7.* does for i486 is instruction
alignment. The Pentium has a better fetch unit so doesn't need any
alignment (it never incurs a misfetch penalty) so optimizing for i486
will at least give some code bloat.
I don't think it does any optimization at all for pentium.
Guy
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