Richard Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On 11/7/05, Paolo Carlini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > Richard Guenther wrote:
| >
| > >Richard is right - it's enough that the inlined version doesn't agree with
| > >whatever smartness is in libgcc.
| > >
| > Like? If you are inlining atomic operations this means that you are
| > passing -march=i686, therefore in order to run the code in the first
| > place the machine has to be an i686, and libgcc certainly knows that.
| 
| You build like kdelibs for -march=i386, it gets the ool version.  Now you
| compile application foobar with -march=i686 and link against kdelibs.
| You're screwed.  You cannot possibly catch all these cases.  Also, libgcc
| does _not_ know the machine - it only knows the -march it was compiled
| for.  Inlining and transparently handling different sub-architecture just
| does not play together well.

I agree.  I think it is a can of warms we would not like to open.

-- Gaby

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