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Re: RFA: gcc.c retry hack
- To: RDBrown at mira dot net, RodneyBrown at mynd dot com
- Subject: Re: RFA: gcc.c retry hack
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au>
- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 18:00:06 +1000
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <E14iyWi-00005s-00@urtur>
On 30-Mar-2001, RDBrown@mira.net <RDBrown@mira.net> wrote:
> The following hack will retry a failing (ICE) compilation after stripping out
> -O arguments (controlled by the ICE_RETRY environment variable).
> At the moment it permits snapshots to build on alpha-dec-osf4.0e where
> they were running out of swap. Is it worth cleaning up for inclusion, to allow
> some testing when compiling with optimization fails for whatever reason?
IMHO yes. We've had quite a bit of trouble with various versions of gcc
occaisionally getting an ICE when compiling the automatically-generated
C code produced by the Mercury compiler, and often lowering the optimization
level has been sufficient to solve the problem.
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