From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 8 16: 6:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C71F37B423 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:06:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04771; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:05:50 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200105082305.QAA04771@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: CFLAGS Optimization In-Reply-To: from Juha Saarinen at "May 8, 1 08:00:34 pm" To: juha@saarinen.org (Juha Saarinen) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 16:05:49 -0700 (MST) Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com, guilherme@nortenet.pt, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Juha Saarinen wrote: > :: 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. Not "fundamentally" broken or else it couldn't generate a working system. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable if we changed the documentation to remove all references to any -O switch with a number attached? > -- Juha -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message