Re: PPC64: gcc currently compiles for power4 by default, causing glibc's sqrtf to fail on e6500

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 11:34:12AM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> This is something that needs to be discussed. A single user alone shouldn't
> warrant such major change in a port. You always have to keep in mind that
> changing the default compiler options also has potential impact on the
> performance on more modern ppc64 systems like Apple Macintosh.
> 
> So, while I'm generally not against such a change, I would like to hear
> some voices first.

Without this change, you have to declare officially that e6500 and e5500
are simply not supported CPUs.

-- 
Len Sorensen