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Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 21:43:51 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Brodie Hynes <bsdml@comphydro.com>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: successful 4.4rc4 install on dec 3305
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 10:52:52AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 15, 2001 at 09:42:42AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > Is this significant?  Things seem to be running fine....
> > 
> > EV4 optimized (for what gcc Alpha optimisations are worth) code runs fine on
> > EV5 & EV6. Maybe not as quick.
> 
> And some have speculated that EV4 "optimized" code may in fact be
> incorrect code.  I.e., "gcc -O2 -mcpu=ev4" may generate more incorrect
> code than it would for "gcc -O2 -mcpu=ev5".

And for -O?

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