Joern Rennecke wrote: > But at any rate, the subject does not agree with > the content of the original post. When we talk > about a 'regression' in a particular gcc version, > we generally mean that this version is in some > way worse than a previous version of gcc.
Didn't the original poster indicate that gcc 4.3 was faster than 4.4 ? In my book that is a regression. According to my reading Francesco's message, the problem is "strange behaviour with GCC 4.4.1", after which he then states that "the same problem is not (...) with GCC 4.3.3".