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Re: [RFH] - Less than optimal code compiling 252.eon -O2 for x86
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 08:12:14PM +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> >I'd tend to agree. I'd rather see the option go away than linger on
> >if the option is no longer useful.
>
> I wouldn't mind that, but I'd also like to point out that there are
> Makefiles out there which hard-code things like -fforce-mem. Do we want
> to keep the option as a stub to avoid breaking them?
It could produce a "deprecated" or "obsolete" warning for 4.1, and then be
removed for 4.2.