From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Dec 4 20:26: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4037C37B405 for ; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:26:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fB54PqM77412; Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:25:52 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Craig Burgess , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems Message-ID: <20011204202552.A74415@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <15373.21674.878247.904328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i 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 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message