> 
> Roland McGrath writes:
> > I am tired of all this mail, so I read the source in
> > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc2/arch/i386 and the answer is it never
> > produces new kinds of instructions, only different choices of 386
> > instructions and much bigger alignment.  Code compiled with -m486 from
> > the netbsd-current sources will run on a 386.  End of story.
> 
> Not quite the end. We still don't have consensus on whether we should
> be compiling everything with -m486, and no one has given any facts on
> what this does to Pentium performance.
> 
> .pm
> 
as far as i remember from the news -m486 is a bit slower than -m386 on
the pentium (the solution would be -m486 plus -malign-double - maybe
it's misspelled - set to 2 for the pentium - maybe there's another
align option)

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