I saw this on gcc devel ML:
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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, David Ronis wrote:
>From the info pages it seems that the new optimizations,
-floop-interchange, -floop-strip-mine, and -floop-block, are NOT turned
on when -O3 is specified. Is this correct and if so, why aren't they?
Because the behavior of -O3 must not depend on whether optional libraries
are linked into GCC, and we did not decide to make PPL and CLooG required
to build GCC, so -O3 cannot enable any optimizations using optional
libraries.
Joseph S. Myers
joseph(a)codesourcery.com
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Does our gcc-4.4 have these optional libs?