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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:12:16 +0100
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        green@FreeBSD.ORG, schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Still kernel compilation failures
Message-ID:  <3.0.6.32.19990723081216.007a75b0@192.168.255.1>
In-Reply-To: <199907230424.OAA01541@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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At 14:24 23/07/99 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> > Put -O back in the COPTFLAGS.
>>> 
>>> It works now. Is there any explaination why -O is required? :)
>>
>>Noone compiles without -O, so(/and) it's not supported. My take is
>
>It is supported, but someone broke it.
>
>>that EGCS says "Hey, I am in optimization level foobar! I can optimize
>>for unused code. Hmm... that's unused, so...". Either that or its
>>debugging support is really uNFed up.
>
>-O works because optimisation removes an unused reference to a nonexistent
>variable.  The variable once existed and was used.  It still exists under
>a different name.

So you're saying that both the compiler and the code are broken?

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