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SubjectRe: -fno-strength-reduce


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?).

Steve



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