Re: [PATCH]: R10000 Needs LL/SC Workaround in Gcc

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 02:26:48PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> > Makes me wonder if there is a point in having a single gcc option, something
> > like -march=generic which selects something like this, including all
> > workarounds?
> 
>  No, please don't.  If we decide to introduce it, someone will actually 
> decide to use it wasting computing power of good machines to handle corner 
> cases.  If somebody has a broken machine or a hardware vendor or a 
> distributor has interest in supporting a particular flavour of breakage, 
> then they are of course free to do so.  But please do not make it too easy 
> to spread.  Let's give the hardware folks some incentive to fix their 
> bugs. ;)

I guess honorable mention for the years to come in the GCC man page
(see -mfix-two-by-two-equals-five ;-)  can do wonders.

  Ralf