Messages in this thread | | | From | Ronald Cole <> | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 1999 16:25:49 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: -fno-strength-reduce |
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"Steven N. Hirsch" <shirsch@adelphia.net> wrote: >On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote: >> Why is this option given to the compiler? > >AFAIK, it is a workaround for a gcc-2.7 bug discovered by John Davis. I >believe it was fixed quite some time ago in gcc-2.7.[2-3], and almost >certainly does not exist in egcs. Linus is just being careful and >conservative with defaults (who can blame him?).
Is there any reason why setting -fno-strength-reduce shouldn't be made part of the configuration process (as was done with setting SMP)?
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