Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 13:11:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: egcs
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On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> I tested last 
> egcs-1.1.1-prerelease-2 build for DJGPP (i586-pc-msdosdjgpp) under 
> one old 386DX40 and compiled test example I used to check whether 
> exceptions are working Ok and didn't met any problem. Binaries
> built for targets i586-* may be slightly less efficient on i386-*
> or i486-* but they still works Ok.

Oh, I thought that building for i586 means they use -march option.  If 
that's not true, then the problem is much less serious.

> So I think the only thing to build egcs for target i586-pc-msdosdjgpp
> on i386 is to override target and host when running configure.
> We need to do this even on Pentium as system is atherwise detected as 
> i386-pc-msdosdjgpp.

Maybe it's time to make the default i586-pc-msdosdjgpp.