Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Switch from i386 to i686?

[Mark Brand]

> As nobody reported a demand for pre-i686 compatibility, I updated
> the project's target triplet to i686-pc-mingw32.
> http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env/rev/7529d9e111fe
>
>    

There was an official sounding recommendation from the Mingw-users list 
on 24/9 to use simply "mingw32" as the prefix.
> The official view of the MinGW project, (and this
> is an authoritative observation), is that the OS identifier should
> be specified *exactly* as `mingw32'. 

(If  you want to read the context, I forwarded the complete post to this 
list on 24/9.)

What do you think about this?  Does including "i686" in the prefix 
actually cause i686 optimizations to be used? I used to assume it did, 
but now I wonder.

-Mark