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- From: bn@mndcrme.uoknor.edu (Bo Najdrovsky)
- Subject: Re: Can Dice create code for 020/030?
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 21:22:23 CST
- Organization: Operation Mindcrime
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- "Stefan Berg" (sgberg@peach.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
- : Dice can be started with the options -030 -020 -881 -882 to force Dice to
- : generate code for the specified processor. I tried -030 on a simple cat.c
- : program, but the code seemed to have the same length. Does anybody know if Dice
- : can actually optimize a program for the 020 or 030 or use the fpu instructions
- : for the 881, 882? The documentation mentiones that versions 2.06 of Dice was
- : supposed to have support for these processor (I have 2.06.40R).
-
- I asked Matt about this via E-mail and he told me that the flags are
- pretty much ignored right now.. if you select -030 -882 it generates same
- code as if you didn't select it. I'm hoping that this "major" update that
- Matt's preparing for December release has the 882 support in it. It would
- make big difference in the floating point stuff.
- Speaking of the update, is anyone here in position to let us in on what
- sort of neat new stuff is gonna be included in the new DICE?
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