On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 11:07:57PM -0600, Phil Brutsche generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > gcc/egcs _is_ safer - pgcc is distributed as a patch to gcc and touches > many compiler internals (for optimizations). It's been known to make > things crash prone (like the kernel). >
I have been using pgcc compiled kernels since 2.2.x without any problems. People should at least be aware that you can optimize for your CPU with gcc 2.95.2 with -march=<pentium type> -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer.
