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Re: Path to add -O2 to TORTURE_OPTIONS list.
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Path to add -O2 to TORTURE_OPTIONS list.
- From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand at sleipnir dot valparaiso dot cl>
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:57:57 -0400
- cc: egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
Nick Clifton <nickc@cygnus.com> said:
> I have just appleid the patch below to the GCC testsuite, so that
> the -O3 command line switch will now also be tested. No new tests
> or test runs have been introduced by this change.
To me it looks like you replaced -O2 by -O3... -O2 _is_ important on
itself, as it is the recommended optimization level for many packages,
including the linux kernel. -O3 isn't used as often because of the
resulting bloat due to indiscriminate inlining.
Just a random comment.
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