gcj/381: gcj miscompiles some loops with -O2

[Jeff Sturm]

The following reply was made to PR gcj/381; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com>
To: Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
Cc: java-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gcj/381: gcj miscompiles some loops with -O2
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 18:26:10 -0500

 Bryce McKinlay wrote:
 > >> Synopsis:       gcj miscompiles some loops with -O2
 > Yeah. This has always been a problem, even pre-2.95. Its the reason why
 > we can't turn on -O2 for compiling libgcj. It happens when you use
 > "continue" in a loop.
 
 I didn't find the existing PR.  Thanks.
 
 It seems to me this is pretty important to get good performance out of libgcj.
 
 In the meantime I'll stick to compiling from bytecode, which seems to work fine.
 
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 Jeff Sturm
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