Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:25:52 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Craig Burgess <craig@CheetahUSA.net>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems Message-ID: <20011204202552.A74415@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <15373.21674.878247.904328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:56:42PM -0500 References: <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFGEIHCFAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net> <15373.21674.878247.904328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:56:42PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Some ports compile with -O2. gcc -O2 is suspected of creating buggy
> code on alphas when gcc has to do shifty/masky to access memory at
> byte or word granularitues.
Mentioning, adding:
WANT_FORCE_OPTIMIZATION_DOWNGRADE=yes
to /etc/make.conf here is beneficial.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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