Suggestion: make -pipe the default

[Richard Earnshaw]

> 
>   In message < 199809082312.AA17687@hoover.gilbarco.com >you write:
>   > I'd like to suggestion that the -pipe switch be made the default when compi ling
>   > with egcs.  
>   > 
>   > In these days of cheap RAM, why not spend some of it in making the compiler
>   > faster by default?  Those (rare?) users who have a problem with piped data  could
>   > use --no-pipe (or something like that) to have temp files created instead.
>   > 
>   > What do you think?  
> Write a suitable autoconf test (since not all assemblers can accept
> input on stdin) and we'll consider it.

How could autoconf do this for a Canadian cross?  Or would you assume that 
such a cross would always use gas?

Richard