Re: -O2 vs -O3

From: Rask Ingemann Lambertsen (rask-linux@kampsax.k-net.dk)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 14:17:25 EDT

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    Den 24-Maj-00 20:13:22 skrev Dave Jones fĝlgende om "Re: -O2 vs -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.

       It doesn't. None of the -Ox options turn on unsafe optimisations. While
    compiler bugs do occasionally happen, most of the time it is the programmer
    that violated the rules.

    >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)

       Egcs 2.91.66 is old. Hopefully you reported the bug to the GCC team.

    Regards,

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