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Re: [TESTCASE] Minimized testcase for AltiVec segfault
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:43:23PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote:
> David's comment applies to every option that GCC has; there's no need
> to go around renaming -funroll-all-loops to -fdebug-unroll-all-loops
> just because it's sometimes ineffective or dangerous.
No, if -funroll-all-loops crashes or produces incorrect code, you
report it as a compiler bug, and it may eventually get fixed.
If -mpowerpc produces "incorrect" code, you get told that you
don't know what you're doing. So why have options with such
tantilizing names?
r~