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Date:      Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:56:30 -0500
From:      "Jim C. Nasby" <decibel@decibel.org>
To:        Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.0 and -O2 option
Message-ID:  <20050831185630.GA98175@decibel.org>
In-Reply-To: <4315C541.7050000@mac.com>
References:  <55023220@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <20050828150947.GA58038@82-168-75-155-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl> <4312B091.9090104@meijome.net> <d449958050829175712f309f3@mail.gmail.com> <20050831050137.GQ77007@decibel.org> <4315C541.7050000@mac.com>

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On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 10:57:05AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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.

Even if the identification can't be done automatically, it still seems
like it would be good to start identifying ports that don't support -O
by hand, and having the ports force a correct -O setting. Most ports
support -O2 (if not -O3), and it would be nice if people could just put
that option in their make.conf and be done with it.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                decibel@decibel.org 
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