Re: -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 - I'm so sick of seeing that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 07:18:23PM -0600, ByteEnable wrote:
> -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 - I'm so sick of seeing that!
> god, can't u ppl leave optimizations alone.  Why not just do -march=i386
> then leave it alone!

Why leave it alone? One determines the instruction set to use, while the
other determines the instruction scheduler to use. We want i686 scheduler,
but we don't want to use i686 instructions.

Cheers,
mark

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