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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:54:42
Message-Id: 1277862850.1329505.6.camel@paska
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native by Beau Henderson
1 On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 11:09 +1000, Beau Henderson wrote:
2 > On 06/30/10 08:07, Paul Hartman wrote:
3 [...]
4 > > You can see which options -march=native would use by running this command:
5 > >
6 > > gcc -Q --help=target -march=native
7 > >
8 > > (thanks to Daniel Iliev for the tip)
9 > >
10 >
11 > Perhaps I'm missing something but running the above gives me the impression that -march=native
12 > actually only configures the bare minimal install. I'm not seeing -mmmx or -msse3 enabled on my
13 > k8-sse3 for instance ( amongst much else ).
14 >
15
16 -march sometimes implies a some things. E.g., anything above a pentium2
17 implies MMX. My hunch is that k8-sse3 implies... sse3.

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Re: [gentoo-user] -march=native Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>