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A customer was confused by the wording of the -fno-guess-branch-probability documentation. The docs say gcc by default uses a randomized model, and has non-deterministic behaviour. This is not true. If it was, then the object file comparisons which are part of the bootstrap process would not work. Here is an attempt to rewrite the doc entry to be more accurate. The option and the docs were added here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-01/msg01275.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-01/msg01380.html And my original explanation of what was going on is here: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-01/msg01349.html Comments anyone? If I don't get any comments, I will go ahead and add this in a few days. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com
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