From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kumba <kumba@gentoo.org>,
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
Linux MIPS List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>,
rdsandiford@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: R10000 Needs LL/SC Workaround in Gcc
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 14:31:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081104143127.GB24906@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0811041423290.7233@ftp.linux-mips.org>
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:26:48PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > Makes me wonder if there is a point in having a single gcc option, something
> > like -march=generic which selects something like this, including all
> > workarounds?
>
> No, please don't. If we decide to introduce it, someone will actually
> decide to use it wasting computing power of good machines to handle corner
> cases. If somebody has a broken machine or a hardware vendor or a
> distributor has interest in supporting a particular flavour of breakage,
> then they are of course free to do so. But please do not make it too easy
> to spread. Let's give the hardware folks some incentive to fix their
> bugs. ;)
I guess honorable mention for the years to come in the GCC man page
(see -mfix-two-by-two-equals-five ;-) can do wonders.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-31 5:00 [PATCH]: R10000 Needs LL/SC Workaround in Gcc Kumba
2008-10-31 14:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-01 7:30 ` Kumba
2008-11-01 17:41 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-01 18:49 ` Kumba
2008-11-01 19:42 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-02 0:00 ` Kumba
2008-11-02 10:00 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-03 9:01 ` Kumba
2008-11-03 20:47 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-04 0:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-11-04 7:14 ` Kumba
2008-11-04 9:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-11-04 14:26 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-04 14:31 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2008-11-04 14:23 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-08 9:37 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-08 18:20 ` Markus Gothe
2008-11-10 6:09 ` Kumba
2008-11-11 23:13 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-11 23:28 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-11 23:40 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-12 7:42 ` Kumba
2008-11-13 23:10 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-14 8:14 ` Kumba
2008-11-15 14:28 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-16 7:35 ` Kumba
2008-11-02 10:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-02 11:34 ` Richard Sandiford
2008-11-03 16:51 ` Paul_Koning
2008-11-03 16:51 ` Paul_Koning
2008-11-03 16:59 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-03 17:35 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-11-01 20:33 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-11-01 23:45 ` Ralf Baechle
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