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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:06:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, kan@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ev4/5/6 issue ?
Message-ID:  <15823.61858.784838.471039@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021111122315.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <55809.1037029315@critter.freebsd.dk> <XFMail.20021111122315.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin writes:
 > so it should not be using any !ev4 instructions.  Perhaps -mtune
 > is broken?
 > 
 > Hmm, actually, the whole release was compiled with
 > '-mcpu=ev5 -mtune=ev5'.  I do know that on alpha gcc "adjusts" itself
 > to whatever CPU it is built on, so maybe because the gcc in the release
 > make world was built on an EV6 it thinks it can emit EV6 instructions?
 > 
 > Weird.

I was worried about this self-adjustment myself, but I thought that it
was a function of gnu configure,  and would be taken care of by
the way we emulate or otherwise fake-out configre for the in-tree gcc.

gcc gurus?

Drew

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