On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
> PS: I investigated the implications of the -march=nocona option and it seems
> this is unfortunately also passed to runtime libraries. It is not a general
> cause for concern; only libgfortran contained 3 calls to an SSE3
> instruction, all the rest did not have any SSE3 instructions embedded. I am
> doubly disappointed: there seems to be no option to pass optimizations only
> for the compiler executables and not runtime libs (for both cross and native
> compilers), and SSE3 seems to have little to no effect whatsoever. Only the
> 32-bit fortran runtime dll might not work on non-SSE3-enabled CPUs.

You could achieve this by tedious process of individually building the
runtime libraries prior to building the compiler.  I don't think it is
worth the extra work and would rather let users of older computers
compile their own or use older distributions from the period age of
the users computer.  However, there is always the ignorant who seem to
want to use cutting edge software on over-the-hill computers and bite
themselves in the process derriere.

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Earnie
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