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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "David Michael Leo Brown Jr." <dmlb2000 AT excite.com>:
> 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.
>
> -- David Brown

Why not make archspecs for your architecture instead of modifying someone 
else's
to work on yours?

-sandalle

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