-fomit-frame-pointer still broken with -fPIC on i586-linux

Jeffrey A Law law@cygnus.com
Sat Jul 25 21:21:00 GMT 1998


  In message < 13754.1828.254316.679238@saturn.hollstein.net >you write:
  > Jeff (and other Intel experts), are there any objections against this
  > patch? I believe the Intel CPUs don't have enough registers that we
  > can calmly do without the additional frame pointer register
  > (e.g. dhrystones drop by 20%!)
We haven't been able to use any of HJ's patches due to copyright assignment
issues.  We have just cleared up those issues, so I'll start looking at
some of his backlogged patches.

jeff



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