Re: lots of 2.2.4 oopses

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:15:12 -0400


riel@nl.linux.org (Rik van Riel) said:

[...]

> :) Anyways, is -fno-strength-reduce there to avoid a certain bug I heard
> that gcc has with -O2 optimisation or is there a deepr reason?

Up to gcc-2.7.2.2 it has the problem, 2.7.2.3 just does the
-fno-strength-reduce on its own. egcs should be rid of that bug. In fact,
I've been compiling my kernels with -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium
for ages. But YMMV.

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