From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu) Subject: Re: GCC questions Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 22:52:58 GMT
In article <1993Feb24.175558.23950@news.uit.no>, jense@stud.cs.uit.no (Jens Kristian Elstad) writes:
|> Hi!
|>
|> I've just got a (silly I guess) question. What do the -m486 flag
|> actually do.
|>
Make binaries run faster under i486.
|> If a source prog is compiled on a 486 machine with the -m486, is it
|> then possible to run the prog on a 386...???
|>
Yes.
|> In other words does -m486 use instructions not avaidable on the 386?
|>
So far, gcc hasn't use them yet. It is not likely it will.
|> Thanks in advance.
|>
|> Kristian.
|> jense@stud.cs.uit.no
|>
H.J.