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Re: -pipe by default
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: -pipe by default
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:49:25 -0400
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <20000915191800.D24143@disaster.jaj.com>
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:18:00PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
>
> If GCC is configured with --with-gnu-as, would it be safe to turn -pipe on
> by default? (Modulo any OS restrictions, like OS/2 or Win32 or whichever
> it is that doesn't support it.) We know that the GNU assembler can handle
> reading from stdin, and we know that we're using the GNU assembler...
If you mean using -pipe in your CFLAGS or what have you, yes it should be safe
enough to do (as long as you don't use -save-temps). If you are tight on
memory, you might not want to do it, since both the compiler and assembler will
run at the same time.
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