On 28 Sep 1998, David Maslen wrote:
# How is EGCS coming along. I'm interested in trying it for kernel
# compilation on my SMP machine. Could somebody report the options they
# have successfully used in the Makefile? I guess I'd want to use some
# of the new optimisations, otherwise I'd stick with gcc. I use 2
# PII233's.
I've been compiling the 2.1 branch under egcs 1.0.3a (just moved to 1.1a)
for quite a while with -O99 -march=i686 with no problems (SMP, too).
On the other hand, I can't measure any difference between the above
compilation and using gcc 2.7.2.3 w/ -O2.
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