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Jamie Lokier egcs@tantalophile.demon.co.uk
Tue May 29 07:01:00 GMT 2001


Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> So -O3 should be changed to add one thing: strict aliasing.
> The excessive inlining should be removed.

Interesting.  When I read the first message, I misread it as meaning to
_disable_ strict aliasing at -O3 because strict aliasing has the
potential to break so much more code when functions are unexpectedly
inlined.  (Traditionally, you can use a function call as a memory
barrier).

-- Jamie



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