From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
To: Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Target CPU default selection on alpha
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 20:31:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19981218203058.A23463@dot.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13946.51325.27183.182995@xayide.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 10:26:21PM +0100, Rainer Orth wrote:
> While this is convenient for a single machine, I suppose it may
> cause problems when the resulting gcc is run on a machine with a different
> cpu type: e.g. configured for a 21164/ev5, but run on a 21064/ev4.
Not that particular example, but for example ev56 won't run on ev5.
> but its more in line with the treatment of other processors to leave
> this choice to the user (via --with-cpu=).
Hum.. I hadn't really given it much thought, since the alpha
port has "always" done it that way. I suppose it would be
better, since there would be less in the way of user error.
r~
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-12-18 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-18 13:26 Rainer Orth
1998-12-18 19:59 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-18 20:31 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
1998-12-21 6:05 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-21 8:31 ` David Edelsohn
1998-12-22 13:02 ` Jeffrey A Law
1998-12-21 11:23 ` Rainer Orth
1998-12-22 12:05 ` Jeffrey A Law
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