From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2218 invoked by alias); 28 Feb 2002 01:47:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 2169 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2002 01:47:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO potter.sfbay.redhat.com) (209.249.29.60) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Feb 2002 01:47:48 -0000 Received: from dot.sfbay.redhat.com (dot.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.224]) by potter.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1S1gch23538; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:42:38 -0800 Received: (from rth@localhost) by dot.sfbay.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1S1ljx29844; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:47:45 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: dot.sfbay.redhat.com: rth set sender to rth@redhat.com using -f Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 17:51:00 -0000 From: Richard Henderson To: Geoff Keating Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: [TESTCASE] Minimized testcase for AltiVec segfault Message-ID: <20020227174745.C29827@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Richard Henderson , Geoff Keating , gcc@gcc.gnu.org References: <200202280010.TAA27298@makai.watson.ibm.com> <20020227171957.B29803@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from geoffk@geoffk.org on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:43:23PM -0800 X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg01734.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:43:23PM -0800, Geoff Keating wrote: > David's comment applies to every option that GCC has; there's no need > to go around renaming -funroll-all-loops to -fdebug-unroll-all-loops > just because it's sometimes ineffective or dangerous. No, if -funroll-all-loops crashes or produces incorrect code, you report it as a compiler bug, and it may eventually get fixed. If -mpowerpc produces "incorrect" code, you get told that you don't know what you're doing. So why have options with such tantilizing names? r~