Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 02:05:46 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Optimisation patch Message-ID: <v0422080db501c0b61c4f@[194.78.234.186]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241628210.84338-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003241628210.84338-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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At 4:29 PM -0800 2000/3/24, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> `make world'. Optimization is in the default settings (-O). > > Fair enough - but how about platform-specific code generation settings, > e.g. -march=pentium? Whatever the official position is, it should be documented in /etc/make.conf, and warnings should be exceptionally clear and the potential consequences laid out as being exceptionally dire, if one was so "adventurous" as to enable them by default for all compiles or to enable them for the process of making the kernel. There's no sense wasting everyone's time when you get a lot of "Doctor, doctor -- it hurts when I do this!" to which our reply is only going to be "So don't do that, you moron!" -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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