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OpenBSD not the only ones grumbling about gcc

OpenBSD not the only ones grumbling about gcc

Posted Oct 25, 2007 23:37 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: OpenBSD not the only ones grumbling about gcc by sayler
Parent article: A potential competitor for GCC: pcc

I don't see why a sort of -O0.5 variant that dikes out 80% of GCC's 
optimization passes wouldn't be doable, or maybe even -Okernel that dikes 
out just the ones the kernel hackers dislike. The passes mechanism should 
be able to do that without especially much difficulty (modulo the existing 
problem where some of them don't properly declare their dependencies on 
earlier/later passes).

I think I have a project for this weekend... ;}


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