[Bug middle-end/56589] Array bounds violation is very end-user unfriendly

[manu at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56589

Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2013-03-11 09:22:07 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> From the changes page:
> GCC now uses a more aggressive analysis to derive an upper bound for the number
> of iterations of loops using constraints imposed by language standards. This
> may cause non-conforming programs to no longer work as expected, such as SPEC
> CPU 2006 464.h264ref and 416.gamess. A new option,
> -fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations, was added to disable this aggressive
> analysis.
> ------- CUT ----------

Maybe the default should be -fno-aggressive-loop-optimizations, and only enable
it for -Ofast (or not even yet until there is a more or less reliable warning
in place). Does the benefit of such a potential optimization of real code
outweighs the frustration and breakage that will certainly ensue?