On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:24:43AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Are gcc optimiser bugs really that common? > > No. While they certainly do exist, >99% of the time, if code works at > -O0 but not at -O2, then the code is broken. (Of course, there are > specific optimization operations that require certain assumptions about > the code above and beyond "correct", but none of those are enable by a > simple -O2.) I find this difficult to swallow given my own experiences with XFree86 when it first met GCC 3.3. My god, that was awful. They still haven't fixed cpp -traditional, as far as I know. Grumble grumble grumble. -- G. Branden Robinson | If you wish to strive for peace of Debian GNU/Linux | soul, then believe; if you wish to branden@debian.org | be a devotee of truth, then http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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