vartest.c - major pain in the build process

[Marcus Meissner]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:32:11PM +0800, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
> "Krzysztof Foltman" <kfoltman at portal.onet.pl> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any reason for gcc 3.3.1 to spend several minutes on compiling 
> > dlls/oleaut32/tests/vartest.c ?
> > 
> > I guess it can be explained by optimization stage going nuts on 
> > compiling long functions with many branches (contained in the macros), 
> > but there must be a way to speed this up.
> > 
> > It's barely tolerable now, and upgrading gcc is not an option for everyone.
> 
> Well, I'd argue that compilation time of full Wine tree is much longer
> than that single test. If you compile from source it's your choice.
> 
> I wonder why you don't complain about programs/winetest linking times.
> 
> Even more drastic route to go is to go and complain to gcc people,
> that's certainly not a Wine fault.

well, 25 minutes for a single file and 25 minutes for the rest of the tree? :)

gcc4 fares better for this test already.

I personally change dlls/oleaut32/tests/Makefile to use -O1 after reconfigure.

Ciao, Marcus