cc -march questions

[Daniel Molina Wegener]

2009/9/3 Scott Bennett <bennett at cs.niu.edu>

>     What exactly does "cc -march=prescott" enable cc to do?  Does it
> include
> instruction scheduling for the pipeline structure of the Prescott CPUs?
>  Does
> it include other options, e.g., "-mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3"?
>     Thanks in advance for any information on the above!
>

According to the GCC manual page, it enables MMX, SSE, SSE2 and SSE3
instruction set support.

Try:
$ man 1 gcc
/prescott

Best Regards,
DMW


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