[zahn@berlin.snafu.de] libc/1149: #ifdef __i686__ problematic to generate 686-dependent code

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Sat Jun 12 13:34:00 GMT 1999


Philip Blundell <Philip.Blundell@pobox.com> writes:

> I tend to feel that egcs shouldn't be defining __686__ in the -mpentiumpro 
> case.  IMHO, the ideal would be to have egcs define __686__ iff 
> -march=pentiumpro was given, and to either have glibc inspect the 
> configuration name for optimization information, or (preferably) add another 
> set of predefines to the compiler.

Yes, this is the only thing which makes sense.

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