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Re: Another illegal instruction awk problem



On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:24 AM, John Klos wrote:

>>> As a temporary workaround -- and probably one which would increase
>>> performance on newer VAX platforms (if not all of them!) -- can we
>>> tell GCC to not generate any of the instructions we emulate, for the
>>> default target anyway?
>> 
>> Alas, not without changing GCC.
> 
> What about, instead of changing the default target, adding a -genericvax flag 
> or something similar which operates along the lines of -m68060 on m68k 
> targets to avoid emulated instructions? Would that be easier to maintain 
> locally, or more acceptable for the GNU people to bring into gcc?

"without changing GCC".  If you are going to change GCC, that's a whole new 
ballgame.


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