RE: HOWTO: lilypond-1.3.98 on windows32

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> There are such things as MMX which would actually break things, but these are 
> not compiler defaults, are usually coded by hand (or
> compiled with a special intel compiler), and are usually backed with 
> redundant code in the case that there is no MMX support.  I
> don't know if gcc has any optional MMX/3DNOW/random-intel-stupidity code 
> generation.  But any sane developer will turn it off
> unless there's a good reason for it.


You can make GCC emit opcodes for 586 and higher using -march=i586.
The 686 suffix usually refers to the value of the  -mcpu switch which
controls instruction padding (I believe).


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