program executin times differ between gcc versions

[Marco Aurélio da Cruz]

Hi Paul,

And what about volatile variables?
If you have variables that might be modified by multiple threads you 
should declare them as volatiles in order to prevent compiler 
optmization and wrong execution.

Marco


Tim Prince wrote:
> Joel Dice wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>>> Dear List,
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>> Using optimization flags is not possible due to the fact that large
>>> parts of the application failed in -O test runs and would need to be
>>> fixed/tested extensively first. Profiling with -pg/gprof has not been
>>> produced usable results as shared libraries are not being tracked.
>>
>> In my experience, OProfile (oprofile.sourceforge.net) is much better 
>> than gprof at revealing the hotspots in my programs, including time 
>> spent in shared libraries.  I strongly recommend it.
> When hotspots occur in libraries, gprof is satisfactory only with 
> static linking.  Library questions seem unlikely to be relevant in 
> this thread.
>>
>> OTOH, I would worry more about correctness than performance at this 
>> point if the code breaks with optimization turned on.
>>
> That's for sure. gcc is unlikely to break reliable code with 
> optimization, unless -ffast-math is set.
>
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