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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 18:45:28 +0200
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Subject: Re: Executable size: limit to acceptability?
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On 17 Jan 00, at 16:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

One exeample is GRX-2.3. 

I have once objected that this option have only meaning with PGCC, 
but with all GCC versions (including GCC-2.95.X) it's simply equal to -
O3.

Andris