From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 4 23:20:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40B2816A4CE; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:20:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ylpvm29.prodigy.net (ylpvm29-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFCE243D46; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:20:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-35.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.35])i64NKmCZ031129; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 19:20:48 -0400 Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 88DBE51AEC; Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 16:20:50 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "David O'Brien" Message-ID: <20040704232050.GA90994@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <200407030941.i639fwt8078389@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040704032139.GA93138@VARK.homeunix.com> <20040704051607.GA78676@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040704205648.GA1617@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040704205648.GA1617@dragon.nuxi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/examples/etc make.conf X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 23:20:53 -0000 --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 01:56:48PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:16:07PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:21:39PM -0700, David Schultz wrote: > > > FWIW, I've been compiling most things with -O2 for a while (to > > > find -O2 bugs, not for speed) and haven't noticed many problems. > > > The only significant one I know of is that -O2 breaks > > > floating-point exceptions in libm because gcc doesn't support the > > > FENV_ACCESS pragma. I think for some routines like rint(3), it > > > may even give the wrong answer due to incorrect optimizations, but > > > I'd have to check that again. > > >=20 > > > AFAIK, the necessary functionality to make gcc's optimizer treat > > > floating-point code in a sane manner isn't on the horizon, so > > > maybe -O2 should be automatically turned off while compiling libm > > > (and perhaps libalias as well). That would make it more > > > easily justifiable to make -O2 the default at some future point. > >=20 > > I don't think we can ever make it the default since there's likely to > > be a lot of software in ports that would be broken too. >=20 > 99% of the ports that "may break" build with -O2 on Linux (as -O2 is > their default). What is different about us vs. Linux for these ports? We care about not introducing instability into our packages? If we have >=3D2 -O2 bugs in our source tree alone, why should you think that none of the 11000 ports are affected? Kris --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA6JDSWry0BWjoQKURAsS3AKDk7gEo4Kcah4OGuXVJ5PSOeDFjTACgiaHV 8gCPZrAZ6XtdImp7HOhORFk= =YIU8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --/9DWx/yDrRhgMJTb--