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Re: Suggestion: make -pipe the default
- To: steve_snyder at gilbarco dot com (Steve Snyder)
- Subject: Re: Suggestion: make -pipe the default
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 09:26:49 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199809082312.AA17687@hoover.gilbarco.com>you write:
> I'd like to suggestion that the -pipe switch be made the default when compi ling
> with egcs.
>
> In these days of cheap RAM, why not spend some of it in making the compiler
> faster by default? Those (rare?) users who have a problem with piped data could
> use --no-pipe (or something like that) to have temp files created instead.
>
> What do you think?
Write a suitable autoconf test (since not all assemblers can accept
input on stdin) and we'll consider it.
jeff