Optimizer broken in cc v2.0 ??

[Michael van Elst]

In article <1990Dec17.121759 at madmax.Viewlogic.COM> kenc at madmax.Viewlogic.COM (Kenstir) writes:
>> I have recently compiled the TeX distribution from stanford
>> and the basic conclusion is:
>> 	it works with -O1
>> 	it doesn't with -O (same as -O2)
>> Have people seen enough of these problems that I should
>> be avoiding the use of -O altogether ?
>Oops.  I am running on a DECstation 3100 Ultrix 4.0 mips cc 2.0

cc2.0 has at least one bug that prevents it from compiling TeX3.0
with -O2. We've used cc2.1 and at least this bug has vanished.
Nevertheless, neither cc2.0 nor cc2.1 are that stable at all.

Regards,
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