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[gtk-list] Re: egcs warning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen Taylor)
Tue Dec 1 22:38:12 1998
To: Scott Stone <sstone@turbolinux.com>
Cc: gtk-list@redhat.com
From: Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com>
Date: 01 Dec 1998 22:37:13 -0500
In-Reply-To: Scott Stone's message of "Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:18:27 +0900 (JST)"
Resent-From: gtk-list@redhat.com
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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
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