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Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 20:53:53 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: processor compatibility when building packages
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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 10:33:37AM +1000, Danny Smith wrote:
>Thanks.  I must be misreading what "cpp_cpu_default" does then.  If
>configure without the cpu part of the triplet, that spec is left undefined,
>unless I do the defines I mentioned above.  Ahh, maybe it just affects
>*scheduling* of code rather than code generation, ie. (-mcpu=i686)!=
>(-march=i686).  

I asked a gcc engineer about that once and, IIRC, that is what he told
me.

cgf