Re: egcs-1.0.3a weirdness with lynx-2.8 on v2.1.107

[Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr at jpr dot com>]

Alex Buell bruited (on 26Jun):
| On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
| 
| > Could you compile the kernel with gcc-2.7.2 to be sure?
| 
| This problem isn't the kernel this time.
|  
| > Are you compiling lynx with the -g option of gcc? If so remove it. Also
| > check the cache size when the swap become very big, latest 2.1.x eat a lot
| > of memory with the cache and they work bad on machine with low memory.
| > It' s a complexity problem, to go faster you need to waste more memory... 
| 
| I've had a similar report from another guy on the egcs mailing list. He
| says that this is definitely a problem with the egcs compiler - to fix
| this, either remove the -O2 or change to -O1. Either way, works fine with
| that. But it's going to be interesting to find out which code sequence in
| Lynx sent the compiler into an endless optimising loop. 

Hmm. Here, I compile with -O3, and have no problem at all.

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