(resurrecting old thread, but i forgot to send below)
On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Ronan Cunniffe wrote:
> Actually, somebody posted that most recent Linux distros were compiled for
> 686. This jarred but I couldn't put my finger on it.
Redhat/Fedora are compiled with -mcpu=i686 - this affects instruction
scheduling, but doesn't affect ABI/instructions used (ie the rpm's
will still be .i386). Certain stuff is compiled with -march=i686 (eg
glibc) because those few packages actually can make good use of i686
instructions.
regards,
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