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Subject: Re: 6.0 and -O2 option
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Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:57:53AM +1000, Robert Backhaus wrote:
[ ... ]
>> Simply because not every port works with -O2 optimisations. It caused
>> bad code in some circumstances.
> 
> Is there an automated way to identify those ports so they can be forced
> not to use -O higer than -O1?

Regrettably, no.  Well, -Werror might be somewhere between overkill and 
helpful, assuming the compiler can recognize a potential type-punning situation.

-- 
-Chuck