Fed up with Gnu CC

[Thad P Floryan]

Re: Brant's problems compiling using gcc (esp. 1.31) ...

Brant mentioned he uses the '-O' (optimize) flag for all his gcc compiles.

In one of the GNU-related newsgroups appeared a comment recently that the
optimizer in gcc is "broken" (esp. in 1.31).

And all the docs accompanying gcc clearly state that gcc is in a "beta"
state until such time as gcc successfully compiles (and permits to run! :-)
a complete "UNIX"(tm) system from the UNIX sources.

Since there's apparently a known problem with gcc's optimizer, suggest you
retry your experiments without the -O flag (use perhaps -g instead, since most
the makefiles accompanying GNU distributions make snide references to symbols
and such :-)

Thad Floryan [thad at cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]