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From: goldberg@parc.xerox.com (David Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: optimization and garbage collection
Message-ID: <91Jan2.131022pst.3117@arcturia.parc.xerox.com>
Date: 2 Jan 91 21:10:19 GMT
Lines: 11
To: m3

This is on SPARCs.  I compiled the "m3compile" program using cc -O, and
when I used the resulting compiler, I got random behavior: when
repeatedly compiling the same program, sometimes that program would
compile correctly, and sometimes not.  When I patched
collection_allowed to be 0, compiles always worked.  This is true with
both gcc (1.37.1) and the Sun C compiler (SparcCompiler 1.1 beta).

Has anybody tried compiling m3compile with optimization and gotten
it to work reliably?

	David Goldberg