Re: egcs-1.1 (was 2.0.36-pre9

Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Wed, 16 Sep 1998 09:28:23 +0200


On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 08:17:37PM -0400, Alex Buell wrote:
> I'm now investigating a different problem with egcs-1.1b compiling
> Lynx-2.8 - seems to runs out of virtual memory if -O2 is used. Removing
> that -O2 parameter seems to work fine.

Which is the main problem I found in egcs: It consumes a lot of time and
memory to compile C++ with -Ox. This got worse with the snapshots druing
the last few months, without the generated code getting noticeably faster.

I hope the egcs people will have a look at this issue.

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Kurt Garloff, Dortmund 
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
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