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Re: RFC: Preserving order of functions and top-level asms via cgraph
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 05:56:55PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> I don't really know how to prove the theory that we can lose the
> functionality. I can see how we can disprove the theory: someone can
> present an example (as you did), for which we develop the consensus
> "yes, that's a reasonable thing for a user to do, so we must support
> this." I suppose we could hardwire -funit-at-a-time to on for a while
> (as it happens to break the ordering), and see how many people yell at
> us, and then, if there was no persuasive yelling, consider that we've
> proved the theory.
It's on by default; it has been for a long time. People explicitly
turn it off, i.e. there are users of the -fno-unit-at-a-time option.
I think that qualifies as proof by yelling.
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