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PostPosted: Sat Feb 28, 2004 2:14 pm    Post subject: What gcc options are optimal for AMD64 3200 with 1mb cache Reply with quote

Does anybody knows what is optimal keys for latest gcc ?

for C++ code and for C code

maybe for libraries is better use different keys set ?

I use now only -O2 -fPIC

not -O3, b/c I am not sure about code quality of current O3 optimizator in gcc...

What do you think about it all? Should I ride out my "optimization" wishes? :)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 5:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've found that trying to add in too many of those CFLAGS tends to lead to a compile failure...I'm fairly certain that this is due to the current state of code development for the 64-bit platform. There's a bunch of things that need to get done. Who wants to do them? I'm game to learn.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a look @ amd64.gentoo.org, there are the technotes for all amd64 processort. You'll read:
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3.l. Properly Setting CFLAGS

The name of the CPU is "k8", but you don't need to put it as a -march=k8 since there is only one x86-64 CPU out there anyways. GCC version before 3.4 will not recognize -march=k8 and will FAIL if it is set.

There used to be issues with the lack of -fPIC being specified when building shared objects, the reasoning is in this mailing list post: Porting to Hammer -- scan down to "Shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC". If you find any packages that complain about needing -fPIC to run/link properly, please notify us immediately, as we need to update that package. Please do not specify -fPIC in your global CFLAGS as that is not an acceptable solution and just a workaround.

Please do not add -m32 to your USE flags, as you do not want to compile the system in 32-bit mode, and by default Gentoo does not support compiling 32-bit binaries. Use of the -m64 flag is irrelevant as the compiler defaults to 64-bit mode and could have negative effects on code that may supply -m32 internally to compile 32-bit assembly (such as newer releases of grub will do).

Warning: Never use -0s. This has been known to cause problems.


Personally, I use
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CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe
as do most of the people in #gentoo-amd64. :wink:
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 29, 2004 8:24 pm    Post subject: Wait for gcc 3.4 Reply with quote

Until the release of gcc 3.4, only use "-O2 -pipe"

After that, there will be a lot more optimization for x86_64

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