Galen Hazelwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps. Anybody have any serious arguments? I think the reason we > configure gcc as i486 is so it automatically optimizes for the 486; it's > a good middle ground.
I think the only optimization gcc 2.7.* does for i486 is instruction alignment. The Pentium has a better fetch unit so doesn't need any alignment (it never incurs a misfetch penalty) so optimizing for i486 will at least give some code bloat. I don't think it does any optimization at all for pentium. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .