Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Nov 1998 22:30:47 +0100 (MET) | From | Sascha Schumann <> | Subject | Re: A patch for linux 2.1.127 |
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 04:03:01AM +0100, Tom Vier wrote: > > > just curious; i heard that freebsd always defaults to -O3 for their > > kernel. is this cuz they code their kernel different, taking > > -finline-functions into account, or cuz they just like to throw the > > highest opt level on it? > > AFAIK that is wrong. FreeBSD uses -O for better debugging.
Not only for the kernel, but for the whole system. There are currently some people who consider switching the standard C compiler from gcc 2.7.2.1 to egsc 1.x. It'd be interesting to know, if the *BSD kernels suffer from similiar problems like the Linux kernel.
Sascha
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