[PLUG] A "C" error

Paul Heinlein heinlein at attbi.com
Sat Dec 28 14:48:03 UTC 2002


On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Felix Lee wrote:

> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>:
> > version of gcc installed here on the RH 7.3 system: 2.96-112?
> > Wasn't there a broken gcc shipped with some distributions not too
> > long ago?
> 
> as far as I remember, the problems were mostly back-end
> things, like problematic optimizations.  front-end things
> like C syntax haven't changed much.

That's been my experience: if you keep optimizations to something 
simple like -O2, then most things build OK. I've run into some subtle 
errors when using, e.g., -march=i686 with some packages.

--Paul Heinlein <heinlein at attbi.com>






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