Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:40:16 +0200 | From | Thomas Pornin <> | Subject | Re: GCC3.0 Produce REALLY slower code! |
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In article <200106260121.f5Q1LuE14141@habitrail.home.fools-errant.com> you write: > Then there's the other question: Why should we test a compiler that > seems to be quite proprietary?
Apart from questions of optimization, compiling the same code with two different compilers is a very good way to find bugs, both in the code and in the compilers.
Besides, the kernel is, for now, dependent on many gcc features; but it might be worth thinking about writing code a bit more "standard", just in case another free C compiler emerges on some specific arch. Then again, aiming at compiling with several compilers is one way to achieve portability.
(yet I do not believe it will happen anyday soon)
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