Re: egcs warning

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Scott Stone <sstone@turbolinux.com> writes:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > Scott Stone wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm having stability trouble with GTK apps when using the -O6 flag with
> > > egcs to build.  If I use -O2 or lower, it works perfectly, however.  Just
> > > an FYI, if anyone's having any weird problems with their apps, make sure
> > > you're not using -O3 or higher with egcs (I believe that -O3, -O4, -O5,
> > > and -O6 are the same with egcs).
> > > 
> > > I'm using egcs 1.1b, and gtk+ 1.0.6 stable.
> > 
> > The problem is that you are not using the stable version of egcs
> > (it's called gcc).  -O6 breaks a lot of things, not just GTK and GNOME.
> 
> heh, well, egcs does a lot of things better than gcc, as well.  And I
> believe -O6 is even more dangerous on the old gcc than it is with egcs..
> But I don't want to start an egcs vs gcc thread here.  I just wanted to
> let people know about the -O6 thing, so I won't be posting any more
> messages on this topic.

On the other hand, if you can find specific instances of pieces
of code, or reproducible bugs that occur with -O6, that
would be an interesting bug report either to us to to
the egcs team.

Regards,
                                        Owen