Hi.

I've been building 0.70 for a while, though I'm still running 0.65. When
I compile, I usually use set the CXXFLAGS variable to "-O2 -march=pentium-mmx",
producing a blackbox executable for my machine around 440K. I'm running
on i586-pc-linux-gnu, compiling with GCC-3.2.2 (cvs).

As the new KDE-3.1 release is coming out, I decide to grab it and
build it (slowly!) on my machine. In doing so, I see it will append
'-fno-check-new' and '-fno-execptions' to the c++ compile commands.
A few minutes in the GCC info pages indicate that these options could be
useful for blackbox, so I rebuild blackbox with these flags in addition
to my usual set, and the size of the executable drops to 360K!

This size decrease has made me curious as to what flags people typically
compile blackbox with. As I'm on linux, I'm only interested in GCC
flags. Is there an optimal compiler flag setting that can squeeze even a
little more performance out of the already quick blackbox?

Art Haas
-- 
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
 -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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