Here's the situation. I have a system that's been running for many years with an Athlon 5050e processor. The system is built with
CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe -msse3" CPU_FLAGS_X86="3dnow 3dnowext mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3" I have the possibility of upgrading the system to a first-generation Intel Core i5 which should give a nice speed boost, but of course the Intel chip doesn't understand 3dnow or 3dnowext, so I'll have to do a system rebuild before I switch out the motherboard/processor. It seems pretty obvious that I have to take "3dnow 3dnowext" out of CPU_FLAGS_X86, but what CFLAGS would be recommended for a system that will still run with the AMD processor but won't fall over when I switch to the Intel processor? Once I have the Intel in place I can rebuild with options more suited for that chip, but I want to make sure I don't end up in a catch-22 situation. -- Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <man...@mclure.org> <http://www.mclure.org> ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft
