Date:	Thu, 20 May 1999 03:08:40 +0200 (MET DST)
From:	Henrik Berglund SdU <adb94hbd AT mds DOT mdh DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: K6 & i686 ASM code
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On 19 May 1999, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:

> What about gzip and kernel and zlib ASM code, should I not use gzip/zlib ASM??,
hmm is there any asm in gzip/zlib thought it´s suposed to be written in
portable c-code only, is there asm code for all the different processors?
inline asm?
> and what about kernel??? I don't know of a choice as to whether or not to use ASM
> for that. Can EGCS or PGCC make as good or better code than the hand-optimized
> ASM?
-mi686 -mi586 -mk6 are only switches that turn on specific scheduling and
compiler optimisations for that processor.


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