x86 boot code build
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 5 05:15:18 UTC 2012
on 04/10/2012 23:02 Dimitry Andric said the following:
> Well, do we still officially support any real i386 machines? If so, we
> should still use -march=i386 for the boot code. Otherwise, let's start
> using -march=i486 explicitly.
As I mentioned earlier, the only difference for boot code is use of 'leave'
instruction. I don't think -march=i486 buys us much, if anything, except for
"coolness factor" (i486 is "cooler" than i386). On the other hand it makes
binaries larger. So...
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Andriy Gapon
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