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Re: RFC: -Wall by default


Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com> writes:
> We have run into people running benchmarks where they were
> specifically prohibited from using other than the default
> options, and gcc fared badly in such comparisons.

Yeah, there was the silly "benchmark" at phoronix where they came to
the conclusion that tcc was a better compiler than gcc because it
generated faster programs when run without any options...

[*] Phoronix is well known for completely clueless benchmarking
practices, but ... unfortunately some people actually seem to pay
attention to what they say.

-miles

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