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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2000 20:52:07 +0100
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems
Message-ID:  <20001211205207.A15479@student.uu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20001211111434.A98131@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:14:35AM -0800
References:  <20001211103638.A21163@peitho.fxp.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012111544260.36265-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk> <20001211111434.A98131@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:14:35AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:45:02PM +0000, Mark Powell wrote:
> > > No, but you may want to review the mailing list archives since GCC
> > > optimization problems have been rehash many times (see also the notes
> > > in /etc/defaults/make.conf WRT optimization).
> > 
> > I hadn't seen those comments. I didn't think gcc could be *that* broken.
> 
> Compiling a kernel is *very* demanding on a C compiler.  Linux still uses
> 2.7.2.3 for their kernel compiler (someone correct me if this is not
> still the case).  Optimization is a hard science.  I don't think anybody

AFAIK Linux doesn't need 2.7.2.3 anymore. The reason they needed it for
kernel compiling for quite some time was , IIRC, that they had some bad
code which happened to work with 2.7.2.3 but didn't work with a later, more
strict, version of gcc. 



> has ever guarenteed 100% correct code with -O2.  But if you
> can provide a test case showing the optimizer bug, the GCC developers
> will fix it.
> 

-- 
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se



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