Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:13:14 +0200
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Subject: Re: Benchmark PGCC vs EGCS on a K6-2
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In-Reply-To: <3741BCDD.E2776759@informatik.hu-berlin.de>; from Jens-Uwe Rumstich on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:17:49PM +0000
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On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 07:17:49PM +0000, Jens-Uwe Rumstich wrote:
> > pgcc uses an adaptive alignment, which is available with newer versions of
> > binutils (2.9.x)
> 
> What does that mean? Do these new binutil versions care about the cache
> alignment?

no, but they can be instructed to selectively generate alignment (i.e.
align to 32 bytes but only when its not more than 5 bytes away or such)

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