Subject: Re: BWX question
To: Michael Kukat <michael@unixiron.org>
From: Rhialto <rhialto@azenomei.knuffel.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/03/2005 01:32:02
On Sun 02 Jan 2005 at 21:42:50 +0100, Michael Kukat wrote:
> the last days my Miata was heavily compiling lots of stuff. NetBSD 2.0
> including XFree86 and a bunch of packages, including KDE3 from pkgsrc-2004Q4.
> Everything is built with -mcpu=21164a -mtune=21164a -mbwx -O2.
> 
> Could it be that these flags help a lot in stability for several products?
> Okay, i didn't compare the same versions, my previous setup was 2.0RC4 with
> pkgsrc-2004Q3, packages just compiled with -mcpu=21164a and OS from releng, not
> home built.

According to the way I read gcc(1), -mcpu=21164a implies -mtune=21164a
and -mbwx. Maybe it didn't in the past?

-Olaf.
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