From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 7 08:35:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA15174 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA15167 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 08:35:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-55.camalott.com [208.229.74.55]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA13803; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:37:08 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA00619; Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:35:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 10:35:07 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809071535.KAA00619@detlev.UUCP> To: Bruce Evans CC: mike@smith.net.au, vanessa.voysey@k2c.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@critter.freebsd.dk Subject: Re: ELF world and MFS / groff issues From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> if CFLAGS/COPTFLAGS are changed to -O3 -m486 -pipe, an ELF make world will >>> produce somewhat weird versions of groff / troff: >> -O3 is known to produce broken code. Don't use it. > You mean, it is known to show that broken code is broken. Both -m486 > and -O3 are normally pessimizations. Don't use them. Why is -m486 a pessimization? Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message