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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 16:25:53 +0100
From: Waldemar Schultz <schultz AT mathematik DOT tu-muenchen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Executable size: limit to acceptability?
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Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Waldemar Schultz wrote:
> 
> > BTW can anyone explain the reason or benefits for using -O6 I often found in
> > DJGPP distributions please.
> 
> In what DJGPP distribution(s) did you see -O6?  AFAIK, the absolute
> majority use -O2.  -O6 was a no-op until GCC 2.9x (or EGCS before it)
> came into existence.

IMHO e.g. allegro and grx23 makefiles use -O6
shouldn't gcc complain beeing passed a no-op Option switch?