On Thursday 25 October 2007 13:58:56 linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 October 2007 05:24, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > >> Basically, what the gcc developers are saying is that gcc is > >> free to load and store to any memory location, so long as it > >> behaves as if the instructions were executed in sequence. > > > > This case is clearly a bug, a very likely code pessimization. > > I guess it wasn't intentional, just an optimization that is useful > > for local register values doing too much. > > > I don't think it is a BUG,
Bug as in an optimization that makes the code slower than it was before. That is clearly a bug in a compiler. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
