FYI: -march/-mcpu patch for mips

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 10:01:18AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >It was never meant to be backwards compatible. That is why I also
> >changed some testcases. In fact, the new -march has the same
> >affect as the old -mcpu. Since my Linux mips toolchain is new for
> >everyone, there is no compatibility problem.
> 
> How about: have -march set the ISA, -mtune set the scheduling, and -mcpu set 
> both.  This is what GCC does for ARM, and it sounds like it should be pretty 
> much backwards compatible with the old scheme.

Whatever's done should be consistent across *all* architectures.  That
was the whole point of -march and -mtune when they were added way back
when.

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