On 24 February 2013 00:23, Kirk Liberty wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use g++ to compile a function with optimization O2 > except for one function I want at O3. I'm not having any luck with > __attribute__ or #pragma. I am using GCC version 4.7.2. With > __attribute__ I am getting a warning that the directive was ignored, > and with #pragma I am simply not seeing the speedup expected. Maybe the optimizer simply doesn't make the code any faster. > Here's what I've tried. > bool* getStreamBool(uint64_t num) __attribute__ ((optimize("-O3"))) {...} I think this should be "O3" or just "3", without the dash.