Re: fyi: gcc33-hammer crashes when compiling kvm emulate.c

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Tue Oct 26 2010 - 16:37:54 EST


On 10/26/2010 01:27 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> That is an issue too, as 3.x does a lot fewer optimizations than 4.x.
>
> Well to be fair the default -Os build disables most of the fancy stuff
> (and the resulting code is often terrible)
>
> I guess it doesn't matter too much, at least not with the
> CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_SIZE default.
>

Yes, it would be nice to have a setting which is "optimize but don't
bloat excessively."

-hpa
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