Mike Jakubik wrote: > > I think the impact is more social. People will try to compile world and get > failures. Specially people coming from the 4.x branch, where this sort of > think never occurred. If this is the only thing preventing a clean makeworld > with -O2, I think its worth taking a look at. It is not true "this sort of thing" never occurred. We have never, ever, supported anything above -O because it has always given trouble. > I've been using freebsd since the 2.x days, I have always compiled world > and ports with -O2, and never had any instability issues due to the > optimizations. I have switched back to -O and -march=pentium4, the > buildworld finished ok. Lucky you. It does happen that these optimizations may result in code with no apparent problem, depending on one's hardware, though I suspect many people's "hardware problems" were nothing of the sort. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) Gerencia de Operacoes Divisao de Comunicacao de Dados Coordenacao de Seguranca VIVO Centro Oeste Norte Fones: 55-61-313-7654/Cel: 55-61-9618-0904 E-mail: Daniel.Capo_at_tco.net.br Daniel.Sobral_at_tcoip.com.br dcs_at_tcoip.com.br Outros: dcs_at_newsguy.com dcs_at_freebsd.org capo_at_notorious.bsdconspiracy.net Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we aren't poets.Received on Fri Aug 29 2003 - 08:31:29 UTC
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