Re: K6 Optimized Debian Binaries

[dan@cg619985-a.adubn1.nj.home.com]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:07:57PM -0600, Phil Brutsche generated a stream of 1s and 0s:
> gcc/egcs _is_ safer - pgcc is distributed as a patch to gcc and touches
> many compiler internals (for optimizations).  It's been known to make
> things crash prone (like the kernel).
> 

I have been using pgcc compiled kernels since 2.2.x without any
problems. People should at least be aware that you can optimize for your
CPU with gcc 2.95.2 with -march=<pentium type> -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer.