Re: Alpha problems...
On 13 Jan 1998, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > Would it be a great problem to use egcs as the default Debian compiler!?
>
> I don't think it would be a great problem for most packages. However, I
> don't trust egcc enough yet. There have been reports of bad kernels as a
> result of compilation with egcs (http://www.reference.com, mailing lists,
> "egcs + kernel").
>
> IIRC, the problems with kernel compilation were related to kernel
> bugs, not bugs in egcc.
There were some kernel bugs and some egcs bugs. Specifically egcs would
overoptimize and ignore the volitial keyword and generate very optimal
code that caused some thing to be in the wrong order..
I don't think many user space things would suffer from overoptimization!
Jason
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