Re: egcs-1.0.3a weirdness with lynx-2.8 on v2.1.107

[Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Could you compile the kernel with gcc-2.7.2 to be sure?

This problem isn't the kernel this time.
 
> Are you compiling lynx with the -g option of gcc? If so remove it. Also
> check the cache size when the swap become very big, latest 2.1.x eat a lot
> of memory with the cache and they work bad on machine with low memory.
> It' s a complexity problem, to go faster you need to waste more memory... 

I've had a similar report from another guy on the egcs mailing list. He
says that this is definitely a problem with the egcs compiler - to fix
this, either remove the -O2 or change to -O1. Either way, works fine with
that. But it's going to be interesting to find out which code sequence in
Lynx sent the compiler into an endless optimising loop. 

Cheers,
Alex
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