Re: egcs-1.1 (was 2.0.36-pre9

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:26:19 -0400


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From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@kg1.ping.de>
To: alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>; Chris
Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 1998 2:35 PM
Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 (was 2.0.36-pre9

>On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 08:17:37PM -0400, Alex Buell wrote:
>> I'm now investigating a different problem with egcs-1.1b compiling
>> Lynx-2.8 - seems to runs out of virtual memory if -O2 is used. Removing
>> that -O2 parameter seems to work fine.
>
>Which is the main problem I found in egcs: It consumes a lot of time and
>memory to compile C++ with -Ox. This got worse with the snapshots druing
>the last few months, without the generated code getting noticeably faster.
>

gcc 2.8.1 doesn't have this problem as far as I can tell. Perhaps you
should use this.

>I hope the egcs people will have a look at this issue.
>
>--
>Kurt Garloff, Dortmund
><K.Garloff@ping.de>
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