From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 7 10:28:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.symark.com (firewall.symark.westlake.iswest.net [207.178.203.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5323537B71A for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:28:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ggross@symark.com) Received: (from mailer@localhost) by gateway.symark.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA30679; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:28:35 -0800 Received: from camel.symark.com(128.1.1.97) by gateway.symark.com via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma030643; Wed, 7 Mar 01 10:28:07 -0800 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:31:24 -0800 Message-ID: <01C0A6F1.C26E6DC0.ggross@symark.com> From: Glen Gross Reply-To: "ggross@symark.com" To: "'Matt Dillon'" , Steven Farmer Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: ARCH flag in new make.conf Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 10:31:23 -0800 Organization: Symark Software X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The impression I get is that when people use it, they usually end up complaining to the list about something not working, and then it is not immediately obvious that broken optimization routines are the problem. On the basis of a dialogue I read about 6 months ago on this list, I decided to avoid it like the plague until the current version of gcc stabilizes somewhat. Does that make sense, or am I being overly cautious? On Wednesday, March 07, 2001 10:15 AM, Matt Dillon [SMTP:dillon@earth.backplane.com] wrote: > I like the idea of an ARCH flag, but anybody who actually uses it with > current GCC's must love pain! I just don't bother any more. The most > I'll ever use is -Os to generate smaller binaries but even that has > broken > on me. So now I just use -O and wipe my hands of the whole thing. > > -Matt > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Glen M. Gross Unix Technical Support Specialist Symark Software 5716 Corsa Avenue, Suite 200 Westlake Village, CA 91362 http://www.symark.com pp-support@symark.com pb-support@symark.com Main: 800-234-9072 or 818-865-6100 Main fax: 818-889-1894 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message