Google SoC Project Proposal: Better Uninitialized Warnings

[Joe Buck]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:34:22PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:49:55PM -0400, Andrew MacLeod wrote:
> > Perhaps this ought to be looked at again with some seriousness.
> 
> I think this is an idea whose time has either come, or will shortly.
> GCC's -O0 is much more extreme than that of other compilers I've used.

Yes, -O0 code is worse than it needs to be.

It would suffice to consider -O0 the "compile fast, no suprises when
debugging" mode.  It's an optimization problem, but what is being optimized
is the speed of the build/debug/fix/build again cycle.