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
