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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:30:33 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
Cc:        ak03@gte.com, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mozilla-devel port on current
Message-ID:  <20021207233032.GA75194@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021207172402.GA2273@tiiu.internal>
References:  <004201c29d54$0120b690$a50a1eac@jsattertop> <20021206212652.GA4342@tiiu.internal> <20021206222624.5b1098f0.kabaev@bellatlantic.net> <20021207172402.GA2273@tiiu.internal>

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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 07:24:02PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Alexander Kabaev
> <kabaev@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:26:52 +0200
> > Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> wrote:
> >=20
> > > I've built it yesterday together with a lots of other stuff. Using
> > > other -march values than i686 is unofficially claimed to be
> > > unsupported (kan@freebsd). As others I'll bet the -march=3Dp4 is
> > > causing problems, i686 works for me.
> >=20
> > The only thing I "claimed" was that using -march=3Dp4 and other options
> > which imply SSE2 with gcc 3.2.x is asking for trouble. Judging by the
> > number of bugfixes that were committed to GCC mainline for SSE2 related
> > problems, I am not that far off base. AFAIK, none of those bugfixes made
> > it back to GCC 3.2.x branch.=20
>=20
> Ok, this is a good claim and making it public will be even better.
> The p4 optimisation is known to be problematic and users should be
> notified before they'll shoot the foot off. IMO it will be a good
> idea to add some logic into appropriate global makefile, to notify
> users. It's long time problem now and comes up periodically in the
> lists.

Perhaps it should be mentioned in the relnotes/errata.

Kris

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