Subject: Re: [PATCH] force -mno-string option on cell

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 01:04:40 +0100

>> In the absence of -mstring and -mno-string options,
>> GCC will default to either on or off based on other
>> options (CPU model, mostly).  This is good behaviour
>> since it intends to give you the best code sequences
>> for whatever CPU you selected (or for a blended CPU
>> model etc).
>
> strings instructions suck, get away with it.

No they don't.

End of this particular subthread I suppose, heh.

Segher