> 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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