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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:10:45 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ev4/5/6 issue ? 
Message-ID:  <15823.62117.919469.410057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <57666.1037037902@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <XFMail.20021111130245.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <57666.1037037902@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
 > >make CPUTYPE="" all
 > 
 > I'm not convinced that works for a kernel actually.  sys/conf/kern.mk
 > contains:
 > 
 > 	.if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "alpha"
 > 	CFLAGS+=        -mno-fp-regs -ffixed-8 -Wa,-mev6
 > 	.endif
 > 

This should just affect what gas will accept, not what gcc
generates.  It read '-mev56' for the entire history of FreeBSD/alpha
until it was upgraded 2 months ago.    It has caused zero problems in
the last 3 years.

Drew

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