Subject: Re: Preliminary test of i386 kernel compiling with GCC 4.0
To: Vincent <10.50@free.fr>
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/08/2004 12:49:51
Vincent <10.50@free.fr> writes:

> Well, I suppose that the optimizer has little to do with FPU-related
> code, whereas ICC has already a good scheduler for it, and I suspect
> ICC to use both the 387 and SSE unit in parallel, something I daren't
> try yet on GCC. And then, ICC, if I remember, does multiple file
> optimization, something GCC does not.

Actually GCC 4.0 does now do multiple file optimization, using the
-combine option.

Ian