RFC: Remove flags -fmove-all-movables and -freduce-all-givs.

Toon Moene toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl
Tue Sep 14 00:05:00 GMT 2004


Joseph S. Myers wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> 
>>Can you please update http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/changes.html with also a
>>little rationale about why those options were removed? I thought we owe an
>>explanation to everybody that was using those flags and upgrade -- whether
>>their use was really succesfull on code generation or they only believed it
>>was.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention - it will be taken care of in 
the next time slot (i.e., the coming weekend :-).

> Also, the manual still contains the two paragraphs that followed the 
> description of those options:

Ugh - I will not even attempt to dig up an explanation for this 
oversight; I'm sorry.  Thanks, Joseph.

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