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From: evas@euraiv1.UUCP (Eelco van Asperen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Vs. Borland; benchmarks!
Summary: no-alias is dangerous...
Message-ID: <789@euraiv1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 17:59:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: euraiv1.789
References: <876@galaxy>  <8254@haddock.ima.isc.com>  <788@euraiv1.UUCP> <9088@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Organization: Erasmus University EF/AIV,Rotterdam,Netherlands
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In article <9088@haddock.ima.isc.com>, suitti@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Uitti) writes:
> However, for anything real
> (largish), I've found that I can't use /Ox with MSC.  Something
> breaks (who knows what).  

Oops; you're quite right on that one. -Ox implies -Oa, ie. "no-aliasing"
and that's dangerous; most code won't be compiled correctly.
Apparently, most benchmarks can be compiled with -Ox and run correctly;
do I hear somebody grumbling about benchmarks and their value ;-) ?


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