> Subject: Re: DUMMY_NOPS
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Arto Huusko wrote:
>
> : Is there any reason what would prevent me to tweak my local kernel
> : makefiles and set -march=pentium or -march=pentiumpro. Would it break
> : anything, or is it safe to just do.
>
> -march=pentiumpro is not safe in current generations of gcc, from
> experience.  It tends to produce very buggy code above -O1.
>
but -march=pentium works for me. i have almost everything (except
binary-only code like netscape or staroffice) compiled with that.