[issue9203] Use computed gotos by default

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:

Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
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> Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> added the comment:
> 
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:
>>
>> Now that the option has probably been extensively tested, it would be nice to enable computed gotos by default on systems that support them.
>> Perhaps this needs a dedicated test in the configure script.
> 
> I doubt that it has been tested enough, but enabling it
> for those platform/compiler where we know it works, should be
> fine.

Here's a compiler/platform combination where it should not be used
per default:

gcc 4.4.2 on AMD processors ...
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42621

The fix will go into gcc 4.5, the report doesn't say whether it was
also backported to 4.4.x.

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