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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

  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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