Ryan Sims wrote:
Another question, somewhat related: I saw a post re using
"LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" in the make.conf file. However, the gentoo devs
seem to go a little mad whenever they run into this idea, so I quit
that practice. I'm a little unclear on a) what exactly that does and
b) why it's harmf
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:34:58 +0800, William Kenworthy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Step 1, take everything in the forums and what others say including me
> with a large dose of scepticism: if you want the truth, test it
> yourself, and look up the man pages for each option and see what it
> really
On Thursday 27 January 2005 04:36, Nicolas Bailey wrote:
> Sorry to barge in, but this got me thinking--
>
> My make.conf has a warning about march=pentium4 generating bad sse2
> instructions or somesuch. I've seen an example using python to
> demonstrate this. For this reason, quite some time ag
Sorry to barge in, but this got me thinking--
My make.conf has a warning about march=pentium4 generating bad sse2
instructions or somesuch. I've seen an example using python to
demonstrate this. For this reason, quite some time ago, I set my
march to pentium3 and have left it. Is it safe at thi
Hi,
On Wednesday 26 January 2005 05:51, Nick Smith wrote:
>
> then on the forums, people are saying that sse=387 is bad to use, and
> some say ffast-math is bad as well. i mean how can someone decide what
> to use when everyone has their own opinions.
First, read man gcc.
They say a lot of thi
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:34 pm, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Step 1, take everything in the forums and what others say including me
> with a large dose of scepticism.
This is true. Some people are using CFLAGS that are just crazy (to me),
but swear by them. Others will h
Nick Smith wrote:
then on the forums, people are saying that sse=387 is bad to use
As far as I'm aware the register allocator in gcc isn't smart enough to
handle -mfpmath=sse,387 effectively yet (even in the forth-coming gcc
4.0). It causes sse variables to be stored in 387 registers and
vice-v
Step 1, take everything in the forums and what others say including me
with a large dose of scepticism: if you want the truth, test it
yourself, and look up the man pages for each option and see what it
really does - not what the forums say as people do not always quote the
source correctly.
For i
i'm sorry to bring this up, im sure its been discussed countless times
on here, but i keep getting conflicting information from everywhere i
look, i was wondering if some people could clear up somethings for me.
first i found this info on the wiki, i also have a p4 2.8Ghz w/HT
running a mail serve
