-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Marcus Meissner wrote: | On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 08:00:53PM +0000, Alexandre Moutinho Santos | wrote: |> Hello, I installed the rpm from ftp.suse.com of Mozilla Firefox |> 1.0 for SuSE 9.2 x86_64. Writing about:buildconfig in the URL |> box, I noticed that it was compiled without the -march=k8 or the |> -m64 flags. I then downloaded the src.rpm and compiled it with |> this flags - no problems at all. I would like to know why it |> wasn't compiled at first place with these flags, as in the man |> page of gcc it says that these flags turn on a set of options |> specific for the AMD64 processors. Best regards, Alex | | -m64 is the default (generate 64bit code). -march=k8 ... cannot | really find out the default, but it does not matter much yet, | because there are not much differences in the x86_64 machines yet. | | Ciao, Marcus The gcc manual states the following for the -march: k8, opteron, athlon64, athlon-fx ~ AMD K8 core based CPUs with x86-64 instruction set support. ~ (This supersets MMX, SSE, SSE2, 3dNOW!, enhanced 3dNOW! and ~ 64-bit instruction set extensions.) Alex -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFB4Fd1PjVgz/mpp6YRAliKAKCbvxjmITwo4GcAalIGJ3Ppj0AJUgCfRhdo tCKcBNMKtnr2Lix3mhDaYEs= =lHdT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----