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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 17:42:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Howard Leadmon <howardl@account.abs.net>, 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!)
Message-ID:  <14553.19348.115781.273817@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000322130901.A97411@dragon.nuxi.com>
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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

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