Live range splitting in new allocator

[Fergus Henderson]

On 29-Jan-2001, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> 
> But the option should NOT be called "-fundebuggable-optimizations".
> That's like having an option that says "-fstupid-compiler". It's not
> undebuggable - it's just a limitation of the compiler (and/or the debug
> interface itself, of course - some debug interfaces just can't handle
> the level of detail you need to debug the code). Make it say
> "-fsplit-ranges", and if people want to use it with -g, let them.

I agree that `-fundebuggable-optimizations' is not a good name.
But the point here is that there should be a single option which
enables all such optimizations.  The user shouldn't have to know
about the implementation details of gcc, and `-fsplit-ranges' is
really an implementation detail.

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