From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 22 14:42:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82B7937C539; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 14:42:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13386; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:42:33 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA08255; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:42:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:42:03 -0500 (EST) To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Howard Leadmon , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler problems with -O2 (was Re: CVS Trouble, even under 4.0-RELEASE (alpha) HELP!) In-Reply-To: <20000322130901.A97411@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <14552.58589.119082.742615@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200003222003.PAA51043@account.abs.net> <20000322130901.A97411@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14553.19348.115781.273817@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David O'Brien writes: > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 03:03:09PM -0500, Howard Leadmon wrote: > > want to avoid, or at least note the problem with -O2 as I have been using > > that when making software on my Intel machines for a long time, so just > > assumed it was OK to do the same on the Alpha.. > > It isn't officially OK from the perspective of the FreeBSD Project. "-O2" > has been the cause of problems on the i386 arch too. Thus my constant > yelling about it that nobody pays attention to. > > I'm on the virge of turning off "-O2" on both Alpha and i386. You certainly have my vote. I take it the O2 bugs are not unique to us, but rather they are generic across all OSes that gcc version 2.95.2 runs on? Do the gcc people know these problems exist? Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message