Re: passing my own compiler options into linux kernel compiling

[Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>]

Quoth Michal Semler:
> Hello,
> 
> I use gcc-3.3 and I would like compile my kernel with flags:
> 
> -O4 -march=pentium3 -mcpu=pentium3

Although it might be handled differently elsewhere, this snippet
from gcc/toplev.c suggests -O4 buys you nothing you don't get from
-O3:

  if (optimize >= 3)
    {
      flag_inline_functions = 1;
      flag_rename_registers = 1;
    }

Kurt
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