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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 03:22:03 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/share/mk sys.mk
Message-ID:  <20010223032203.A1785@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200102221219.f1MCJSF08422@Magelan.Leidinger.net>; from Alexander@Leidinger.net on Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:19:26PM %2B0100
References:  <20010221114805.A96924@dragon.nuxi.com> <200102221219.f1MCJSF08422@Magelan.Leidinger.net>

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 01:19:26PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> On 21 Feb, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> >> BTW, may be -mcpu=${MACHINE_CPU} can be added to the default CFLAGS now?
> > 
> > I am nervous about this on the Alpha unless very well tested.  We all
> > know that an ev4 system as the ev4 cannot handled ev56-only instructions.
> > [note the release building box and package cluster are ev56 machines]
> > According to the GCC manual for 3.0 (in development), -mcpu on the Alpha
> > includes the functionality of -march:
> 
> [Quoting the docs]
> 
> Reading "man gcc" on my -current (gcc 2.95.3) I interpret this as:
>  - -mcpu   does the _instruction scheduling_ for the specified CPU
>  - -march  _uses instructions_ of the specified CPU

See the manual at http://gcc.gnu.org, and look at the Alpha specific
options.  My read of it makes me want to check this carefully before an
MFC.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX

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