Re: feature request: detect CPU instruction set

2010-07-21 Thread Sam Steingold
Hello Ralf, On 7/21/10, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 05:08:02PM CEST: > > The already existing AC_CANONICAL_HOST is insufficient in that it > > does not detect the actual cpu instruction set to which the C > > compiler compiles. > > Is there something

Re: feature request: detect CPU instruction set

2010-07-21 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Sam, * Sam Steingold wrote on Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 05:08:02PM CEST: > The already existing AC_CANONICAL_HOST is insufficient in that it > does not detect the actual cpu instruction set to which the C > compiler compiles. Is there something in GCC and/or binutils to bite off of? I mean, idea

feature request: detect CPU instruction set

2010-07-21 Thread Sam Steingold
The already existing AC_CANONICAL_HOST is insufficient in that it does not detect the actual cpu instruction set to which the C compiler compiles. E.g., it is quite common that "uname -m" prints sparc64 while gcc compile 32-bit binaries by default. It would be nice if gnulib offered a module cont