Andrew Hurt writes: > I'm still green, but eager to optimize this stuff for my Debian 3.0 on a > K6-2. Thinking that gcc is the first step in the process . . . . > > Have been trying to build 2.95.x and 3.0.x from dpkg-source -x *.dsc: deps > seem to be in order, but I have come-up with much more confusion that is > necessary (1600+ unexpected FAILs in testsuite, &c).
included with gcc-2.95 is the testsuite from gcc-3.0. This lets us see regressions from the older to the newer version. You have to compare your results with the results in the gcc-2.95 doc directory and see if there are any regressions.