Package: gcc-4.5 Version: 4.5.1-2 Severity: normal $ cat a.c #pragma GCC optimize("-O3") int main(void) { return 0; } $ gcc-4.5 -o /dev/null -c -O2 -flto a.c a.c:6:1: sorry, unimplemented: gimple bytecode streams do not support the optimization attribute