Date:	Mon, 14 May 2001 21:23:15 +0300
From:	"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: -O6 optimizations
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> From: "Patrick Mitran" <pmitran AT tsp DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 15:26:05 GMT
> >
> > "-O6" only does some real work in the PGCC variant of the compiler,
> > which is not what you have (and which is not on the main branch of the
> > GCC development anyway).
> 
> Really? This would seem to contradict the FAQ which explicitly states that
> GCC 2.95 and above does some extra work with -O6. (section 14.2)

The FAQ is wrong.  It was written before GCC 2.95 was released, and I
somehow was under the impression it will support -O6.  It doesn't.

Thanks for pointing this out, I will correct the FAQ for the next
release.

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