Re: HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 08:42:16 -0800
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 10:36:14AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 November 2004 17:48, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > Don't know, perhaps they don't care about the fraction of ports that
> > don't work properly since the rest of them have such eleet
> > optimization.
> 
> On the technical end of things, what exactly is it that causes problems with 
> higher-level optimizations?  Are they due to bugs in GCC, or obfuscated 
> code that can be interpreted several ways?

Sometimes GCC bugs, but also incorrect C code in a lot of cases
(that's how I came up with the number of 350 ports; those are the
ports that emit a certain warning about probable bugs when compiled
with -O2).

Kris

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