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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:25:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        obrien@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems
Message-ID:  <15374.8263.560510.987767@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011204202552.A74415@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <JMEJIDBCLMMNOALABHFFGEIHCFAA.craig@CheetahUSA.net> <15373.21674.878247.904328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011204202552.A74415@dragon.nuxi.com>

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David O'Brien writes:
 > 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.
 > 

Cool.  I never knew about that myself.  Would have saved me lots of
time running find . -name Makefile -exec .... to s/O2/O in all of a
ports Makefiles.  Thanks for the tip.

Drew

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