From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" Message-ID: <87pu2qy1sk.fsf@becket.becket.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii References: <15484.64496.974395.322869@nanonic.hilbert.space> Subject: Re: [9fans] splitting the compiler Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 10:13:55 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5af7ca24-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 paurea@gsyc.escet.urjc.es writes: > We can make the first and the second not exclusive by having -O > flags so while developing (you want fast compiling and no new bugs > generated by the compiler) you don't use 2. The issue here is the > 3rd constraint. If you add a complex optimizer the code is less > portable. I'm pretty familiar with GCC internals, and it's pretty darn portable. But perhaps there's a whole level of portability I'm missing. Could someone with familiarity with both compilers (GCC and 8c) say [in some detail] what kind of portability 8c has that GCC lacks, so I could understand it better. Thomas