Jason Dusek wrote:
Without GCC, how would we compile C extensions?
I'm not sure what you mean. To answer the original question: yes, -fvia-C is almost redundant. We took some steps in 6.10.1 to make -fvia-C behave in a way more consistent with -fasm (that I still need to document properly!), so -fvia-C no longer includes any header files when compiling the generated C code. If you were using -fvia-C to call C functions defined as CPP macros via the FFI, then you can't do that any more in 6.10.1. You have to write a C wrapper function and call that instead. I think -fvia-C generates slightly faster code in some cases, but it might also generate slower code sometimes. FWIW, we still use it for our binary distributions, but I haven't measured the difference it makes, if any. Cheers, Simon