Re: -pipe by default

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:49:25PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> 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).

Actually, I meant in the front end.  If -save-temps, etc, was passed,
then -pipe would default back to off.

It's something I've been vaguely playing with, and I was soliciting reasons
why this would be a Bad Thing to do...


> 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.

...and this is probably reason enough.  :-(  We'll never be shy on memory
on the systems on which this would be used, but the general principle
still holds.

Thanks.

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