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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:24:20PM -0400, David Michael Leo Brown Jr. wrote:
> 
> I was looking at the x86-64 specfile and was surprised to see that it wasn't
> x86-64 the -march flag was set to k8 for gcc 3.4, when it should be x86-64.
> 
> I understand that there's some people in sourcemage who have amd64 
> processors
> however, I don't, I have the intel version that uses the x86-64 
> specifications
> (called extended memory 64 technology)
> 
> gcc doesn't have em64t as a valid arch spec (not even in v4.1) the closest 
> thing I
> can pass to gcc is x86-64
> 
> I would propose a change to the specfiles and move the current x86-64 and 
> x86-32 
> to k8-64 and k8-32, and change the x86-64 and x86-32 to the more generic 
> -march=x86-64, also I would change the x86-[64,32] gcc 3.3 to 
> -march=pentium4
> 
> This way would provide arch specs for both amd and intel implementations of 
> the 
> arch specification x86-64.
> 

What would the HOST variable be for each of the archspecs?

Im going to take this opportunity to make a plug for moving archspecs
(at least new ones) to a spell. Everytime theres a new arch sorcery has
to be updated and a new version released, quite often releasing a new
sorcery for just an archspec is a big ordeal, furthermore outdated or
incorrect archspecs are quite often a sore-spot for people with newer
architectures who also cant use devel sorcery. So, I propose that future
archspecs go into a spell and I can make sorcery look in multiple places
for archspecs and use the spell location in preference to its own.

-Andrew

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