Date:	Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:34:37 +0200
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Tom ST Denis" <tstdenis3160 AT home DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 04:20:35 GMT
> 
> But the optimizations the authors must have been thinking of
> when they did DJGPP for the i486 are not always what you want for an i686 or
> k6.  My point is that newer opts may have been missed.

GCC is constantly developed, and DJGPP gets the latest versions.  The
current version definitely has 686-specific support.  As for K6 or K7,
its support might be less efficient; I don't know.

But we definitely do NOT use a compiler whose optimization development
stopped at 486.

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