On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 19:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > historically, gcc on x86 has always defaulted to i386.  some people
> > noticed recently that glibc-2.6 fails to build in this situation as they
> > were only setting -mtune via CFLAGS, not -march.  i'll be tweaking gcc so
> > that it will default -march based on your CHOST.  so all the i686-*
> > people will now have a default -march=i686 implied in their gcc systems,
> > i586-* people will have -march=i586, etc...  keep in mind this is merely
> > the default.
>
> Have you spoken with upstream about this?  Is there any way they would
> adopt it there?

my reading of the code is that they do this on purpose.  they set the default 
*tune* based on target, not arch.  the gcc man page also quotes that the 
default -march is i386 if no -march is set.
-mike

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