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From: Paul Koning <paulkoning@comcast.net>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: P.S. Follow up to my last post
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:40:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E981B0F2-F141-4079-8C20-CC8F52FDAE5A@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60877e9d-f6b1-a319-2383-0a87c980aea8@suse.com>



> On Aug 25, 2023, at 9:30 AM, Jan Beulich via Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
> On 25.08.2023 15:07, jacob navia wrote:
>> OK, there is no bug, I didn’t expect anything else.
>> 
>> SO:
>> 
>> To use all the instruction of the processor he/she is running on, the user should:
>> 
>> 1)Be aware that gcc doesn’t see crucial instructions of the processor by verifying its assembler output.
>> 
>> 2) Be aware that there is an (undocumented) option -march… that will enable the assembler and the compiler to generate all the instructions of the current processor.
>> 
>> Well, there is NO BUG!
> 
> Well, if -march= is indeed undocumented for gcc, that's something
> worth reporting there then, I would say.

It would be if it were true, but of course it is not.  -march is clearly mentioned in the info pages, the man pages, and in "gcc --target-help".  Likewise, it is documented in the info pages, man pages, and "as --help".

	paul


  reply	other threads:[~2023-08-25 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-25 11:52 jacob navia
2023-08-25 12:00 ` Jan Beulich
2023-08-25 13:07   ` jacob navia
2023-08-25 13:30     ` Jan Beulich
2023-08-25 13:40       ` Paul Koning [this message]
     [not found] <AEF14E89-14CF-4474-8822-B0139F3F740B@jacob.remcomp.fr>
2023-08-25 15:32 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2023-08-25 16:10   ` jacob navia
2023-08-25 17:03     ` Paul Koning
2023-08-25 19:44       ` jacob navia
2023-08-28  6:17         ` Jan Beulich
2023-08-28  7:04           ` jacob navia

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