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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 17:41:09 -0400
From: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
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To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
CC: Michal Semler <cijoml@volny.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: passing my own compiler options into linux kernel compiling
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Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:16:17AM +0200, Michal Semler wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I use gcc-3.3 and I would like compile my kernel with flags:
>>
>>-O4 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3

-mcpu is taken care of by -march in gcc3
-O4 does nothing, -O3 is the highest gcc3 goes, and -O3 does cause 
problems with certain code.

I'd suggest also -ftracer as it is supposed to help your standard -O2 
level optimizations do their jobs. How well, probably not very noticable 
in real life, but then neither is -march=pentium3 over i686.


>>Is there any way to do this?
> 
> Only way to specify -O4 is to manually edit top-level Makefile.
> Change the assignment to CFLAGS (not hOSTCFLAGS as someone suggested).
> 
> The -m options are set in arch/i386/Makefile.
> The best way to set them is to select the correct processor type.
> 
> 	Sam
> 
basically, makefiles are supposed to add the value of CFLAGS to their 
flag variable.  CXXFLAGS for c++ arguments. But i understand why the 
kernel doesn't do this since it needs strict management over the build.

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