Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 01:10:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> Cc: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>, "Nuno Teixeira" <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>, "Guilherme Oliveira" <guilherme@nortenet.pt>, "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: CFLAGS Optimization Message-ID: <200105080810.f488AYi01702@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 20:00:34 %2B1200." <KPECIILENDDLPCNIMLOFCENMCDAA.juha@saarinen.org>
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> :: The risk is the same in Linux; they both use gcc, and it's gcc which
> :: has the optimizer bugs. It's more common to use absurd gcc
> :: optimizations in the Linux community for some reason (perhaps they're
> :: used to code misbehaving, so additional brokenness from the gcc
> :: doesn't add much ;-)
> ::
> :: Just Say No.
>
> Hrrmm... that's tantamount to saying Linux and FreeBSD has a fundamentally
> b0rken compiler.
It would be more accurate to say that Linux and FreeBSD have a compiler
with optimiser bugs, but that's widely known. Don't sound so surprised. 8)
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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