Re: [OT] Re: code bloat [was Re: Semaphore assembly-code bug]

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Oct 31 2004 - 10:48:14 EST


On Sul, 2004-10-31 at 01:09, Ken Moffat wrote:
> and the time to load it is irrelevant. Since then I've had an anecdotal
> report that -Os is known to cause problems with gnome. I s'pose people
> will say it serves me right for doing my initial testing on ppc which
> didn't have this problem ;) The point is that -Os is *much* less tested
> than -O2 at the moment.

I've seen no real problems - x86-32 or x86-64, and my gnumeric appears
happy. Could be that the Red Hat gcc 3.3 has the relevant fixes already
in it from upstream I guess.

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