Re: run incorrecly using -O?
red floyd wrote:
Victor Bazarov wrote:
Onix wrote:
I wrote a program and when compile it with g++ without optimized
option -O, the final program runs correctly, but if I compile it
using -O then the final program produced error.
Is there anything I need to aware when using -O?
Your program most likely has undefined behaviour which changes if it
is compiled (optimized) a bit more than not at all. You need to
aware how to debug your program, and spend some time doing that.
That's not necessarily the case. I dealt with some (C -- not C++)
code where gcc did some overly aggressive optimizations that led to
segfaults and bus errors (granted, the code was using ugly
constructs, but they were well-defined).
Right. Compiler/optimizer defects can affect the outcome as well,
although they are *less likely*. First thing to check is the case
of uninitialised pointer. But this cannot be concluded with any
certainty without looking at the code.
V
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