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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:53:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Bob Firth <firth AT troika DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Subject: -mcpu vs -march
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I'm using mingw32 on Intel.  I was wondering what is the difference
between using, say, -mcpu=pentium and -march=pentium.  The skimpy
documentation I have implies that the code generated using -march may not
run on all i386 architecture cpu's, whereas using -mcpu it will run
everywhere, if not at its most efficient.  Is this correct?

Bearing in mind the software will run on a variety of different machines
(pentium onwards), what is the best compromise of cpu to compile for? 

What about the AMD K6 ? 

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