Re: optimization issue about -O2 and -Os

[Phil Edwards <phil at codesourcery dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 06:21:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>   Hmm, maybe it would be worthwhile to invent -f options for all these
> ad-hoc tests on the optimize variables, so that the -O options then *did*
> become shorthand for flag sets, and the suggestion I already made for
> localising the failure with a given -O setting would actually work?

We need fewer -f options, really, not more of them.

Or to put it another way:  if an optimization pass is buggy, it doesn't
deserve to have an -f option yet.


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