From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24187 invoked by alias); 9 Feb 2010 00:53:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 24179 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Feb 2010 00:53:40 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-bw0-f221.google.com (HELO mail-bw0-f221.google.com) (209.85.218.221) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:53:36 +0000 Received: by bwz21 with SMTP id 21so5759442bwz.4 for ; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:53:33 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.15.150 with SMTP id k22mr3469810bka.161.1265676813821; Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:53:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5b39479c1002081232s16bc722clec4ee1cc4e8b6d87@mail.gmail.com> References: <5b39479c1002081232s16bc722clec4ee1cc4e8b6d87@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:53:00 -0000 Message-ID: <56d259a01002081653r5607502dv240e832289e42ac4@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: conceptual help From: Martin Guy To: Diego Saravia Cc: crossgcc@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact crossgcc-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: crossgcc-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-02/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 On 2/8/10, Diego Saravia wrote: > I dont understand why to use i586 i686 x86_64, etc as targets if gcc > produces only one excecutable for all i386 and x86_64 processors I guess it's so you can say "gcc" and have it produce optimal code for your target system, instead of needing to hack the build system to accept extra parameters. M BTW, Diego, your reply address fails, -- For unsubscribe information see http://sourceware.org/lists.html#faq