Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:53:45 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: -fno-strict-aliasing Message-ID: <20040209215345.GA21980@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <4027871E.8080800@mindspring.com> References: <c11ba4d1.a4d1c11b@etat.lu> <20040209022820.00faa408@pyro.convolution.ti> <20040209043217.GA1009@xor.obsecurity.org> <4027871E.8080800@mindspring.com>
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--dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:11:58AM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:28:20AM -0200, Bruno T. wrote: > > > >>Hi everyone. > >>i'm pretty new to bsd, but i have some background in linux development > >>and for what i have seen until now, i must say that -CURRENT is rather= =20 > >>impressive, congrats ! > >> > >>I was rebuilding my base sys and noticed that any compiler flag=20 > >>that implies -fstrict-aliasing (like -O2) would break some few things, > >>adding "-fno-strict-aliasing" to "CFLAGS+=3D" in these makefiles > >>solves the problem for now. > > > > > >Don't do that then :-) > > > >Kris >=20 > Although it's not urgent, I don't see why the aliasing problems can't be= =20 > fixed. I think it would be more honest if the party line was "FreeBSD=20 > has bugs, so we can't use -O2 right now" rather than the standard reply= =20 > of "-O2 is not supported, don't even try". It's "don't even try unless you plan to fix them". Kris --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAKAFpWry0BWjoQKURAlMrAJ48ulEzihuZc2lrCZ4QiiT1lCM1ZwCfeTNY ABpvEaLBCGAkSX7hvPKiexk= =RWj6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--
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