From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87elj1v3nd.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <65cb447dbaf5f9da39d670e4f0596c79@plan9.bell-labs.com>, <20020301135745.706f318b.martin@mca-ltd.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] GUI toolkit for Plan 9 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:07:09 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e3bda22-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 martin@mca-ltd.com (Martin C.Atkins) writes: > I'm sorry that I can't remember *any* attribution, but I thought it > was "common wisdom/knowledge" that gcc only really worked properly > with -O turned on. That the optimiser "optimised away the bugs put in > by the code generator". This is going back a few years, so it may be > things have "improved"? One of the dangerous things about FUD is that people continue to repeat it, when it was never true, without attribution except as "common wisdom".