-pipe by default

[Michael Meissner]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 07:18:00PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
> 
> If GCC is configured with --with-gnu-as, would it be safe to turn -pipe on
> by default?  (Modulo any OS restrictions, like OS/2 or Win32 or whichever
> it is that doesn't support it.)  We know that the GNU assembler can handle
> reading from stdin, and we know that we're using the GNU assembler...

If you mean using -pipe in your CFLAGS or what have you, yes it should be safe
enough to do (as long as you don't use -save-temps).  If you are tight on
memory, you might not want to do it, since both the compiler and assembler will
run at the same time.

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