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From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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> > > I have seen this as well, using -O2 -march=athlon-xp.
> > > The generated assembler tried to stuff -129 into a single byte.
> >
> > What about just trying -march=athlon?  The only difference is the SSE
> > support, which is quite new and may have latent bugs anyway.
> 
> I didn't try that, but i did not get that error using:
> -O2 -march=athlon-xp -mmmx -msse -m3dnow -mfpmath=sse
> to compile the xc/ tree


Is it just me, or does this whole discussion boil down to something
like "How can I overclock my compiler?"?

-- Terry

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