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Bug#609690: Debian x86 32-bits built for i586 !?



On Tue, 17 May 2011, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >Assuming we can't just do away with i486 support for now, did anyone track
> >down exactly what was causing breakages that forced the change from
> >march=486 to march=586?
> 
> libgomp assumes 586; there were some GFortran/OMP issues on i386.

"assumes 586" is pretty damn vague.  Does it use 586-only instructions,
or what?

I have no strong opinions about dropping i486 or not.  All boxes I could
ever care about, even at work, are either amd64 or i686.

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