On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Ralf Baechle 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. ;) Maciej
