[GCC] Compiling for a generic x86 Architecture
Mario
I wrote a simple C program, and I need it to run on a generic x86 machine,
in other words I do not need an executable optimized for my processor but
for the most common processors.
- what specific options should I pass to GCC for this purpuse?
Looking at GCC manual I found the -mtune=generic option,
- What does this option exactly do? Do it mean -mtune=i386 or there are
some differences?
Seebs
> - what specific options should I pass to GCC for this purpuse?
The options the friendly people in the GCC help newsgroup would point you
at. This question is entirely about a compiler, and unrelated to the C
language.
Hint:
* The answer will be *IDENTICAL* for C++ or Objective-C.
* The answer will be *UNRELATED* for any other C compiler.
That's a big clue that this has nothing to do with the language. (And
no, I don't have high confidence that you'll get a good answer here, since
gcc options are something about which a very large number of developers
have unsupportable superstitions.)
I'd point out that what you want is generally impossible, though. At the
very least, you have to pick a target operating system and C library and
so on, and by the time you've gotten that far, you're probably excluding
thousands of platforms.
-s
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