From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik To: Richard Henderson Cc: gcc AT gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Optimization for PII Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:34:00 -0000 Message-id: <37DDD029.114569B2@pobox.com> References: <199909140020.RAA23613@kankakee.wrs.com> <19990913210204.A31604@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09/msg00517.html Richard Henderson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > > I think we could add PII and PIII as essentially aliases to pentiumpro > > for users that don't know much about the CPU line. > > I thought about this. It starts to make the specs file extremely ugly. > Just documenting things properly is probably good enough? IMHO supporting -march=p2 and -march=p3 is a nice user friendliness feature. It makes transitioning to P-II- and P-III-specific optimizations easier, as folks won't have to change their Makefiles to take advantage of new compiler features. Regards, Jeff -- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik To: Richard Henderson Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Optimization for PII Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <37DDD029.114569B2@pobox.com> References: <199909140020.RAA23613@kankakee.wrs.com> <19990913210204.A31604@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-09n/msg00517.html Message-ID: <19990930180200.871vGU0CPpoNJ0K-okgPXiwxd6nunmhMtwWGQCdct34@z> Richard Henderson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 13, 1999 at 05:20:50PM -0700, Mike Stump wrote: > > I think we could add PII and PIII as essentially aliases to pentiumpro > > for users that don't know much about the CPU line. > > I thought about this. It starts to make the specs file extremely ugly. > Just documenting things properly is probably good enough? IMHO supporting -march=p2 and -march=p3 is a nice user friendliness feature. It makes transitioning to P-II- and P-III-specific optimizations easier, as folks won't have to change their Makefiles to take advantage of new compiler features. Regards, Jeff -- Custom driver development | Never worry about theory as long Open source programming | as the machinery does what it's | supposed to do. -- R. A. Heinlein