From: kroe AT sbcs DOT sunysb DOT edu (KiYun Roe)
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 92 21:31:05 EST
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
Subject: Re: Bootstrapping djgpp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Status: O

> ... and the compiler
> was reconfigured to produce a.out format and recompiled with -O.

That's too bad. :-)  My experience is that -O will often generate
slower code.  Either the GNU compiler has a hard time dealing with the
386/486 architecture (the small number of registers perhaps) or the
machine-dependent description of the 386/486 hasn't been done carefully
enough.