Subject: Re: What are you using port-sparc for?
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/30/2004 20:29:38
On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> My point was that from reading the docs, I would have thought that
>> adding "-mtune=supersparc" to "-mcpu=supersparc" wouldn't make _any_
>> difference in the resulting code, but maybe I'm missing something?
>
> Yep, but the docs about -mcpu= and -mtune= for other CPUs say different things so either the docs are badly out of sync or these things are handled in a more individual way than I'd think necessary - I suspect the former.
Architecture specific gcc flags are not very consistant
between architectures. "Generate code specifically for this cpu"
can be either -march or -mcpu.
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