On Tue, 19 May 1998, James Turner wrote:
> Downside of not using -O is that gcc can't follow data. Basically it
> won't warn for possible use of uninitialized data plus a few other
> things I believe. Turning it on can help with compile-time warnings
> at the cost of debugging. Sometimes it's useful to have it on,
> other times not.
I'm not recommending removing optimization. I now have a makefile option
to compile with optimization off for debugging. I'm very tempted to try
to find this particular optimization in the gcc source and remove it,
since I don't see any flags to turn it off at the command line.
Sam
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