On 4/18/06, Ivan Novick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a gcc user at a fininancial institution and IMHO it would not be a > good idea to have non-production ready functionality in gcc. We are > trying to use gcc for mission critical functionality.
It has been always the case that additional options not enabled with any regular -O level gets less testing and more likely has bugs. So for mission critical functionality I would strongly suggest to stay with -O2 and not try to rely on not thoroughly tested combinations of optimization options. So from my point of view, the situation with -ftree-loop-linear is fine - it's ICEing after all, not producing silently wrong-code. For experimental options (where I would include all options not enabled by -O[123s]) known wrong-code bugs should be fixed. That's my 2c, Richard.
