Re: [Qemu-devel] /* XXX: suppress this hack */

[Magnus Damm]

On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 13:02, Laurent Amon wrote:
> On 31 oct. 04, at 12:31, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > And yes, adding cpu-specific flags to gcc seems pointless.
> >
> I believe this need to be tested further. On the version I use (a CVS 
> somewhat later that 0.6.0), and the regular gcc 3.3 on OSX 10.3.5 
> (TiBook G4/400), I get more or less a consistent 8% speed increase  
> with -mcpu=7400 using Sandra on Win98 guest. Unless the flag interferes 
> with AREG4-AREG11, it should get better.

Huh. Just curious, this "regular" gcc 3.3, is it from FSF or is it a
Darwin-version? Do you use "-faltivec" or "-maltivec -mabi=altivec" to
add altivec support? The latter is FSF.

This is what I use right now (FSF):

address@hidden damm $ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.1 20040803 (Gentoo Linux 3.4.1-r3, ssp-3.4-2, pie-8.7.6.5)
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

/ magnus