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Matthy,

> Everything is now compiling nicely. How could a few simply
> switches make the difference between something compiling and something
> going tits up?

Because "optimisation" means taking something which works and turning it
into something which doesn't.

Try building stuff with a non-gcc compiler _and_ optimisation.


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