On 22 July 2011, at 07:45, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Every "native" setting is just resolved by gcc at compile time to some
> concrete setting like "core2". 

Perfectly correct.

On 21 July 2011, at 15:05, Florian Philipp wrote:
> ...
> (unless, of course, if the GCC guys get their switch-case logic wrong).

Unfortunately, this has been known to happen. 

See GCC bug 48743.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48743

Admittedly the affected CPU in that case is somewhat older, dated and 
unfashionable.
Hopefully such errors will be less common on newer CPUs, but we shouldn't rule 
it out.

Stroller.


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