From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 23 17: 3: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CE637C6AD; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id RAA48239; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: Chuck Robey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimisation patch In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Any objections to the following? > > I don't mind at all ... I was wondering about just taking out the ability > to even USE -O2 in the compiler, but there're probably *some* non-kernel > related reasons for using it, and we shouldn't block it at that > point. Not for FreeBSD, but for some users doing their own code on > FreeBSD. Right..I saw the discussion on -stable, and I think it would be a bad idea as well. gcc -O2 is a tool which isn't always broken (excepting alpha breakage), so we shouldn't limit its use in the general case. Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message