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SubjectRe: -fno-strength-reduce
"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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