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From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org>
To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>,
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Subject: RE: CFLAGS Optimization
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 20:00:34 +1200
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:: The risk is the same in Linux; they both use gcc, and it's gcc which
:: has the optimizer bugs.  It's more common to use absurd gcc
:: optimizations in the Linux community for some reason (perhaps they're
:: used to code misbehaving, so additional brokenness from the gcc
:: doesn't add much ;-)
::
:: Just Say No.

Hrrmm... that's tantamount to saying Linux and FreeBSD has a fundamentally
b0rken compiler.

-- Juha


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