From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org, Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Subject: Re: RFC: New approach to --with-cpu
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 08:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200207311517.QAA23208@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:53:02 EDT." <20020731145302.GB31591@nevyn.them.org>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 10:46:50AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > Well, that's no problem. A first cut of this patch offered defaults
> > > for -march= and -mtune= separately on MIPS. I could do the same for
> > > PA easily.
> >
> > I would be happy if the configure option for setting the default
> > scheduling was "--with-schedule" rather than "--with-cpu". This
> > will set the default for -mschedule=. Similarly, when an option
> > is introduced to set the default arch, then I would like to use
> > "--with-arch".
> >
> > Using the same suffix in the configure and gcc options makes the
> > relationship between the two options clearer.
>
> I was actually debating this. The advantage of using --with-cpu for
> all targets is consistency across architectures. The advantage of
> saying --with-schedule, --with-arch, --with-tune is flexibility. I
> lean towards consistency, but I could be persuaded either way - does
> anyone else have an opinion?
>
> I suppose using --with-schedule on PA would also mean we could have
> --with-arch, which is nice.
>
In what way is --with-schedule different from --with-tune? Are they
synonyms?
I can understand the split --with-arch --with-tune and --with-cpu (with
the latter meaning -with-arch=<arch-of-cpu> --with-tune=cpu), but I'm not
sure of the distinction between schedule and tune.
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-31 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-30 18:54 John David Anglin
2002-07-30 23:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 7:53 ` John David Anglin
2002-07-31 8:09 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 8:30 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2002-07-31 9:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 10:34 ` John David Anglin
2002-07-31 13:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-01 3:31 ` Richard Sandiford
2002-08-01 3:57 ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-08-01 8:15 ` John David Anglin
2002-08-01 8:23 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-01 11:40 ` John David Anglin
2002-08-01 6:30 ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-08-01 7:41 ` John David Anglin
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2002-08-01 6:04 ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-08-01 6:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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2002-07-30 15:27 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 6:35 ` Richard Sandiford
2002-07-31 6:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 6:54 ` Richard Sandiford
2002-07-31 7:28 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 7:36 ` Richard Sandiford
2002-07-31 7:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-31 7:50 ` Richard Sandiford
2002-07-31 8:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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