From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 5:26: 1 2001 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 4534C37B416; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 05:25:58 -0800 (PST) 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 IAA04005; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:25:52 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id fB5DPRg45935; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:25:27 -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 Message-ID: <15374.8263.560510.987767@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 08:25:27 -0500 (EST) To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4-RELEASE - XFree - netscape + gnome problems In-Reply-To: <20011204202552.A74415@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <15373.21674.878247.904328@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20011204202552.A74415@dragon.nuxi.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message