Christopher Thompson <chris@hypocrite.org> wrote:
> Linux kernels are compiled with the -O2 flag set. I'm curious, why don't we
> use -O3?
During the early development of Powertweak I set the Makefile files to compile
some routines with -O3 instead of -O2. I then spent hours looking for a bug
which wasn't there. The optimiser was over-zealous, and removed a pointer
assignment.
So I guess -O2 implies that we use only the known-to-be-safe optimisations.
On a sidenote, the optimiser in egcs 2.91.66 still generates bugged code in some
situations which can only be worked around by setting -O0
(Example available upon request)
regards,
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