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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New computer and Gentoo
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:40:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <525EAB29-5C24-4DF3-B91D-94BEEF519D7A@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E283230.5030801@binarywings.net>



On 22 July 2011, at 07:45, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Every "native" setting is just resolved by gcc at compile time to some
> concrete setting like "core2". 

Perfectly correct.

On 21 July 2011, at 15:05, Florian Philipp wrote:
> ...
> (unless, of course, if the GCC guys get their switch-case logic wrong).

Unfortunately, this has been known to happen. 

See GCC bug 48743.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48743

Admittedly the affected CPU in that case is somewhat older, dated and unfashionable.
Hopefully such errors will be less common on newer CPUs, but we shouldn't rule it out.

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-23 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-21  8:57 [gentoo-user] New computer and Gentoo Pandu Poluan
2011-07-21  9:21 ` Florian Philipp
2011-07-21  9:52   ` Pandu Poluan
2011-07-21  9:56   ` Florian Philipp
2011-07-21 13:10   ` William Kenworthy
2011-07-21 14:05     ` Florian Philipp
2011-07-23 13:40       ` Stroller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-21  2:23 CJoeB
2011-07-21  2:29 ` Adam Carter
2011-07-21  5:26   ` Mick
2011-07-21  5:54     ` Bill Kenworthy

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