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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:17:52 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        bsd@picard.mandrakesoft.de
Cc:        The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...
Message-ID:  <19990923111752.B57930@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909231320430.2703-100000@picard.mandrakesoft.de>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909230759130.4590-100000@thelab.hub.org> <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909231320430.2703-100000@picard.mandrakesoft.de>

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In the last episode (Sep 23), bsd@picard.mandrakesoft.de said:
> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> > just curious, but what is the max setting that can be used to
> > compile the kernel?
> 
> Works rather nicely here with
> 
> -O6 -mpentiumpro -march=pentiumpro -pipe -s -fexpensive-optimizations
> -ffast-math

-O6 is too much; -O3 is the highest level tested for by egcs.

-fexpensive-optimizations is redundant because -O2 turns it on.

See /usr/src/contrib/egcs/gcc/toplev.c, starting at line ~4250, to see
what the different -O levels actually do.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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