From: idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu (Ian D Romanick)
Subject: Re: GCC 2.7.2
To: algikun AT santaka DOT sc-uni DOT ktu DOT lt (Martynas Kunigelis)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 22:04:42 -0800 (PST)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
MIME-Version: 1.0

> P.P.S. Who knows, what is the greatest significant argument for 
> optimization option (-Ox) ? I've seen -O6 in some makefiles, while docs 
> says -O3 is the biggest... Any ideas?? Help..

Currently 3 is the largest.  However, anything larger than 3 will be
treated as a 3.  People put larger numbers in makefiles in case the
compiler is updated to have higher optimization levels.


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