Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) Newsgroups: unix-pc.general Subject: Re: Fed up with Gnu CC Message-ID: <12015@cup.portal.com> Date: 2 Dec 88 07:46:49 GMT References: <450@manta.pha.pa.us> Distribution: unix-pc Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 17 Re: Brant's problems compiling using gcc (esp. 1.31) ... Brant mentioned he uses the '-O' (optimize) flag for all his gcc compiles. In one of the GNU-related newsgroups appeared a comment recently that the optimizer in gcc is "broken" (esp. in 1.31). And all the docs accompanying gcc clearly state that gcc is in a "beta" state until such time as gcc successfully compiles (and permits to run! :-) a complete "UNIX"(tm) system from the UNIX sources. Since there's apparently a known problem with gcc's optimizer, suggest you retry your experiments without the -O flag (use perhaps -g instead, since most the makefiles accompanying GNU distributions make snide references to symbols and such :-) Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]