> On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> =

> 	Just a thought on this - how much of a gain would it be for
> 	StrongARM RiscPC machines to be able to use the non halfword
> 	StrongARM instructions? Would there be any sense in adding another
> 	-march or similar option to gcc?
> =

I think that is what -march=3Darmv3m means. It allows the use of the =

enhanced multiply instructions but inhibits the halfword load/store =

instructions. The -mtune=3Dstrongarm option enables the instruction =

reordering to reduce result register dependencies.

Last time I tried the performance differences were not really noticable =

and compiling userland with these options eventually led to some weird =

anomolies with config. Given that some compiler issues have now been =

resolved It might be worth another go now.

Mike