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Suggestion: Use -pipe by default
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- Subject: Suggestion: Use -pipe by default
- From: nisse at lysator dot liu dot se (Niels Möller)
- Date: 06 Oct 2000 15:05:07 +0200
The gcc manual says about -pipe:
`-pipe'
Use pipes rather than temporary files for communication between
the various stages of compilation. This fails to work on some
systems where the assembler is unable to read from a pipe; but
the GNU assembler has no trouble.
Are there still many systems where -pipe doesn't work? I believe it
would be a good thing to use -pipe by default. I feel a little uneasy
about random use of files in /tmp, and in gcc's case it seems
unnecessary. Perhaps one can use some configure or runtime test to
detect the situations where -pipe is known not to work?
Regards,
/Niels