At 14:24 23/07/99 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> > Put -O back in the COPTFLAGS.
>>>
>>> It works now. Is there any explaination why -O is required? :)
>>
>>Noone compiles without -O, so(/and) it's not supported. My take is
>
>It is supported, but someone broke it.
>
>>that EGCS says "Hey, I am in optimization level foobar! I can optimize
>>for unused code. Hmm... that's unused, so...". Either that or its
>>debugging support is really uNFed up.
>
>-O works because optimisation removes an unused reference to a nonexistent
>variable. The variable once existed and was used. It still exists under
>a different name.
So you're saying that both the compiler and the code are broken?
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