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Via the Gentoo Weekly News, Sep 1 `03:

"User Adam Dunstan was curious whether using -march=pentium4 on his GCC 3.2.3 Gentoo box was safe yet. List member Gabor replied with a cool Python trick that allows a user to quickly tell if his GCC compiler was affected by the -pentium4 bug."