What happened to -frename-registers?

Ulrich Weigand weigand@i1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Tue Jun 29 12:08:00 GMT 2004


Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > From what I see in the mailing list and bug #15023, the problem 
> > appears to be that it exposes target bugs on some platforms.
> 
> Another problem was that it is a serious CPU hog (up to 8% CPU time).  

IMO that simply means it shouldn't be active at -O1 by default.
Having it on at -O2 (or maybe even -O3 only, as it used to be) 
should be OK, in any case better than not having it at all ...

Bye,
Ulrich

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  Dr. Ulrich Weigand
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