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From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
Cc: "'gcc_mailing_list'" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: optimization issue about -O2 and -Os
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8odiepk.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NUTMEGQzBxhJTANZwwP0000010e@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM> (Dave Korn's message of "Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:24:45 +0100")

"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>
>   Ah, I stand corrected.  Would it be accurate to say that they are _both_
> shorthand for a set of -f options _and_ _also_ control a set of other
> behaviours, which entail enabling, disabling, or fine-tuning the parameters
> of other optimisations that do not correspond directly to -f options ?

Yeah, that's pretty accurate.  You can look through the source code
for instances of the global flags "optimize" and "optimize_size".
Anything you can do to improve the documentation in this regard would
be much appreciated.  It would probably be a good move to deemphasize
all those -f switches; they tend not to be all that useful; I consider
their primary purpose to be working around bugs in specific
optimizations, using -On -fno-<buggy-pass>.

zw

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-30 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-29 10:33 Ebony Zhu
2004-04-30  0:37 ` Jim Wilson
2004-04-30  6:39   ` Ebony Zhu
2004-04-30  9:20     ` Jim Wilson
2004-04-30 13:23       ` Ebony Zhu
2004-04-30 16:06       ` Dave Korn
2004-04-30 16:42         ` Zack Weinberg
2004-04-30 18:09           ` Dave Korn
2004-04-30 19:12             ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2004-04-30 19:45               ` Dave Korn
2004-04-30 20:05                 ` Phil Edwards
2004-04-30 20:09                   ` David Edelsohn
2004-04-30 21:02                   ` llewelly
2004-04-30 18:29       ` Dale Johannesen

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