Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: When is -O2 faster than -O3 for MIPS compiler? Message-ID: Date: 28 Dec 90 22:42:44 GMT References: <765@nvuxl.UUCP> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 19 In-reply-to: hsong@nvuxl.UUCP's message of 28 Dec 90 17:13:22 GMT In article <765@nvuxl.UUCP> hsong@nvuxl.UUCP (g hugh song) writes: ... | I finally pinpointed out a routine which is affected by the compiler | bug. (It was not easy to pinpoint out just one routine among | about 100 routines.) I have some perl scripts that aid in finding these sorts of things. They are geared towards finding which .o produces the unexpected behavior, and which routine within the .o is the faulty one (this last one is tuned to gcc on the MIPS, I imagine it could be hacked if needed for the MIPS compiler). -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?