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Date:      Sat, 5 Mar 2005 21:51:31 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Is -O2 supported for world?
Message-ID:  <20050305215131.GD84206@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <86eket52e1.fsf@xps.des.no>
References:  <20050305043006.GN83265@afflictions.org> <20050305152235.GE26240@hub.freebsd.org> <86eket52e1.fsf@xps.des.no>

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On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:16:54PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > -O2 produces broken code on amd64 anyway, and a number of ports will
> > fail to build or run when world is compiled with -O2, with or without
> > -fno-strict-aliasing.
> 
> No trouble here...

The problems were publicized last year but no action taken since; a
number of ports such as perl 5.6 do not build when world was built
with -O2, but build when world is built with -O.  I have had to use
local modifications on my amd64 package build source trees ever since
for this reason.

Kris

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