[RFH] - Less than optimal code compiling 252.eon -O2 for x86

[Fariborz Jahanian]

On Jun 30, 2005, at 11:23 AM, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 20:12 +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
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>> Jeffrey A Law wrote:
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>>> I'd tend to agree.  I'd rather see the option go away than linger on
>>> if the option is no longer useful.
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>> I wouldn't mind that, but I'd also like to point out that there are
>> Makefiles out there which hard-code things like -fforce-mem.  Do  
>> we want
>> to keep the option as a stub to avoid breaking them?
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> Excellent point.  I believe in other cases we've kept the option
> around for a release, then killed it.

I would also like to keep this feature around for a while. It is  
possible that setting of this option under -O2/-O3 has masked some  
optimization bugs. In which case, addition of -fforce-mem would be a  
temporary workaround.

- fariborz

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