Re: is gcc 2.8 safe to use yet ?

Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbj@image.dk)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:39:15 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Marek Habersack wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote:
>
> > > > I use the standing compile options for an i486 (-m486 -O2 -fomit-fr...
> > > > -fno-str.. etc.) X runs fine on my system (RH5 with updates.)
> > > Hmm... What CPU do you have?
> > >
> > AMD 486DX4 100MHz
> >
> > I've also tried to build the kernel with '-m486 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer'
> > and it runs without problems.
> So it might, just might, be somehow related to the CPU I use: AMD K6/166. Does
> anyone have any ideas on that?
>
It might be the new pentium optimization in 2.8.x (it's also used for K6.)

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