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Date:      Sat, 02 May 1998 15:58:33 -0700
From:      Studded <Studded@san.rr.com>
To:        "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is gcc's option "-m486" convenient for Pentium II ?
Message-ID:  <354BA519.B617E5EC@san.rr.com>
References:  <35483813.1E209EAE@we.lc.ehu.es>

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Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
> 
> Hello folks,
> 
> Gcc has a "-m486" option that may be used to generate code
> optimized for 486 instead of 386. However, I don't trust Intel
> in any way, and I'm not sure that the 486-optimized code will run
> faster that the 386-optimized one on a Pentium II. Does anybody
> know about this question?

	Simple, if you are not running the code on a '486, don't use the -486
flag. :)

Good luck,

Doug

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