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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: R4000 compiler directive, is there one ???
- Message-ID: <oisl0q0@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:59:44 GMT
- References: <1992Aug13.181236.18013@Veritas.COM> <1992Aug14.180101.14529@megatek.uucp>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <1992Aug14.180101.14529@megatek.uucp> rgs@megatek.uucp (Rusty Sanders) writes:
- | Net result; if you're using floating point on an R4000 you probably
- | should use -mips2 -r4000 to get best performance. Does MIPS/SGI
- | actually support (i.e. accept bug report calls) on the undocumented
- | -r4000 switch?
-
- I don't think so. If so, we would have used it in the specmark
- tests, more than likely. I don't know why it isn't supported;
- it may be for lack of testing, or introduction of bugs.
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