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Re: Need Optimizer bug workaround

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: "Tina VanRoggen" <Tina_VanRoggen at avid dot com>
Cc: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:01:59 +0100
Subject: Re: Need Optimizer bug workaround
References: <947869D80E39884D8207B9F253BB4D7002DE5C99@tewk-mbpf3.global.avidww.com>

Tina VanRoggen writes:
 > This is on Xcode 2.2.1, GCC 4.0.1.  The source code 
 > is quite old and runs on multiple platforms using 
 > other compilers.  The following call to SetupParameter 
 > passes in garbage for the pl variable when using the 
 > -Os (fastest/smallest) optimization.  Using -O1 
 > optimization works properly.  
 > 
 > My question is: is there a compiler flag that we can 
 > use with -Os that will turn off the optimization that 
 > is causing the problem?  We'd rather not use only
 > -O1 optimization.  There is likely other
 > code in our app that will have the same problem.
 > Thanks.

I agree with Graham Stott, -fno-strict-aliasing will do the trick, but
you'd be much better off fixing your code.

Andrew.

References:
- Need Optimizer bug workaround
  - From: Tina VanRoggen

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