Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 12:47:02 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.privatelabs.com> Cc: kris@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/emulators/gnuboy/files patch-configure.in Message-ID: <20010430124702.A9305@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <200104301926.f3UJQ4C07642@misha.privatelabs.com>; from mi@misha.privatelabs.com on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:26:02PM -0400 References: <200104300922.f3U9MuI68213@freefall.freebsd.org> <200104301926.f3UJQ4C07642@misha.privatelabs.com>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:26:02PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> On 30 Apr, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > kris 2001/04/30 02:22:56 PDT
> >
> > Modified files:
> > emulators/gnuboy/files patch-configure.in
> > Log:
> > Don't hard-code -O3 and about 20 -f optimizations
> >
> > Revision Changes Path
> > 1.2 +17 -2 ports/emulators/gnuboy/files/patch-configure.in
>
> While I agree, that the -On should be specifiable cenrally, the
> -f optimizations are usually added by the software's author for
> a reason. That's how they test them... -ffast-math, for example,
> speads things up at the expense of the standards conformance (argument
> checking). If the software checks the arguments itself, -ffast-math
> should be on the command line... And so on...
>
> Not my ports, of course, so just mumbiling...
You may be right except for two things:
a) I bet many authors *don't* test the code thoroughly, they just
whack in a few sexy-looking -f optimizations ("hmm, fast math..yeah, I
want the math to be fast")
b) They're not testing it with every new release of gcc on FreeBSD.
Kris
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