Re: PPro compile

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sat, 14 Sep 1996 15:30:51 +0100 (BST)


> One reason that 486-optimized code might be less efficient is that
> just about everything is aligned on a 16 byte boundary, so the code's
> bloated.

The pentium compile uses -m486 but doesnt specify the 16 byte alignment
if you look at the -m flags passed to gcc