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Date:      Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:21:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Matthew Rezny" <mrezny@umr.edu>
Cc:        "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: the -O2 flag
Message-ID:  <15284.49073.622905.144457@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010928180928.406C137B40C@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20010928180928.406C137B40C@hub.freebsd.org>

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Matthew Rezny writes:
 > Now that I"ve created make.conf to set my architecture so that gcc
 > doesn't crash while compiling KDE with -O as is the default, I have
 > another question. Somehow it still ends up with -O2 in the Makefiles
 > that the configure script builds. g++ gives a big warning about known
 > optimizer bugs on this platform with that switch. Now does this mean
 > gcc might crash while compiling or that it may produce bad object code?
 > I've always tried to edit that flag out of makefiles, but this damn
 > thing has a makefile in every subdirectory so I'd have to edit several
 > dozen.
 > 

Possible bad code -- but with using the -mev56 flag, it may produce OK
code.


When I built kde, I seem to remember running find with a perl -pi to
edit each make file (or configure file).  Its been a while..

Drew

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