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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.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)

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