> 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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