On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Marc Glisse <marc.gli...@inria.fr> wrote: > > this patch makes the driver pass -O2 to GNU ld if gcc was called with -O3 > (or more), -Ofast or -Os.
I don't understand why that is a good idea. The linker -O option is only distantly related to the compiler -O option. It was probably a mistake to have a linker -O option at all. Ian