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From: Fariborz Jahanian <fjahanian@apple.com>
To: law@redhat.com
Cc: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>,
	Steven Bosscher <stevenb@suse.de>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFH] - Less than optimal code compiling 252.eon -O2 for x86
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DA02021B-4192-42DB-BB1E-D50FAC3D8386@apple.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1120155806.4621.233.camel@localhost.localdomain>


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

> On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 20:12 +0200, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Jeffrey A Law wrote:
>>
>>> I'd tend to agree.  I'd rather see the option go away than linger on
>>> if the option is no longer useful.
>>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
> 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

>
> jeff
>
>
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-30 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-24 22:06 Fariborz Jahanian
2005-06-24 22:17 ` Andrew Pinski
2005-06-24 23:46   ` fjahanian
2005-06-25  0:06     ` Steven Bosscher
2005-06-30 14:42       ` fjahanian
2005-06-30 15:03         ` fjahanian
2005-06-27 19:20 ` Fariborz Jahanian
2005-06-27 19:56   ` Richard Henderson
2005-06-27 21:52     ` Fariborz Jahanian
2005-06-30 16:04       ` fjahanian
2005-06-30 16:08         ` Andrew Pinski
2005-06-30 16:55         ` Steven Bosscher
2005-06-30 17:48           ` Jeffrey A Law
2005-06-30 18:12             ` Bernd Schmidt
2005-06-30 18:19               ` Joe Buck
2005-06-30 18:25                 ` Giovanni Bajo
2005-06-30 18:23               ` Jeffrey A Law
2005-06-30 19:06                 ` Fariborz Jahanian [this message]
2005-06-30 19:47                   ` Steven Bosscher
2005-06-30 21:30                     ` Fariborz Jahanian

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