Martin Krischik writes: > Am 06.06.2007, 11:56 Uhr, schrieb Andrew Haley > <aph-gcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > ??????? ?????? writes: > > > ?ould you give me a confirmation that: > > > 'The installation of the 'i686' gcc is compatable with the 'i586' > > > version of Suse Linux' ? > > > I don't really understand why you're asking this. If you have a i586 > > system, why not configure gcc for the i586 ? > > The most significant difference between i586 (Pentium) and i686 > > (Pentium Pro) from gcc's point of view is MMX instructions. > > SuSE only distristributes for i586! This is - of course - outdated > so it is resonable to create a more modern tool chain on top. I do > so as well. Mind you I would which for pentium4 - but that fails > as cross compile is still flacky. But that is a diffrent story. Fair enough. i586 and i686 use the same ABI, and there shouldn't be any cases where running i686 compilers on top of a GNU/Linux system built for i586 will cause any problems. Andrew.
