Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 22:07 +0200 schrieb Fred Kiefer: > > I think the way to move forward is to add a configure option/test which > > would fallback to a more portable yet less efficient implementation. > >
> Yes, but what would be the condition to test for and what would be the > correct behaviour then? Should we test whether we are on a i486 (or > higher) processor and then add -march=486? And what if we are actually > on a i386? And what should we do when we are on a machine where gcc does > not provide that new build in? I would think that we should add test that always compiles and links but also runs a small programm using the instructions unless were cross-compiling. But we also need a manual configuration switch so that distributions can compile for "minimal requirements" on newer machines. Cheers, David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
