Hi all, I thought this was an interesting tidbit on code optimization and architecture-specific limitations. This is the kind of topic that has come up a lot in the book club, but it's generally useful to know for writing optimized code:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15349959/gcc-refuses-to-emit-long-calls-for-operator-new-delete-on-powerpc?newsletter=1&nlcode=75484%7c33c5 The takeaway for me is, if there's a compiler flag that you don't understand (in this case, -mlongcall), then there's probably a situation where you wished you'd supplied it. :^) - Kurt
