Re: Kernel GCC Optimizations

[Adam Majer]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 01:23:08PM +0000, Joao Seabra wrote:
>  Rename registers from the gcc 3.2 man:
> "Attempt to avoid false dependencies in scheduled code by making
>           use of registers left over after register allocation. This
>           optimization will most benefit processors with lots of
>           registers. It can, however, make debugging impossible, since
>           variables will no longer stay in a "home register"."

Just to be blunt here :), i386 is not one of these register rich
archs. So it will probably not help you to compile with -O3... Of course
you could have something else...

- Adam