Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 18:55:36 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, scrappy@ki.net Subject: Re: I HATE OPTIMISING COMPILERS Message-ID: <1403.833392536@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 May 1996 13:08:29 %2B0200." <199605291108.NAA20309@allegro.lemis.de>
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Greg Lehey wrote in message ID <199605291108.NAA20309@allegro.lemis.de>: > Well, it looks like what you hate is a broken compiler. That's not > optimizing, that's just broken. Well, it was the -O which was the culprit, which (to me at least) points to a problem in the optimisation code. > How come you didn't use gdb to follow up the problem? Would gdb have been able to track this down? I'm not so sure. That, and I have never liked gdb. I used gdb to track the execution path and then dove into the sources to see what was going on. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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