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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 2002 19:24:02 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee>
To:        ak03@gte.com
Cc:        obrien@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mozilla-devel port on current
Message-ID:  <20021207172402.GA2273@tiiu.internal>
In-Reply-To: <20021206222624.5b1098f0.kabaev@bellatlantic.net>
References:  <004201c29d54$0120b690$a50a1eac@jsattertop> <20021206212652.GA4342@tiiu.internal> <20021206222624.5b1098f0.kabaev@bellatlantic.net>

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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 10:26:24PM -0500, Alexander Kabaev
<kabaev@bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 23:26:52 +0200
> Vallo Kallaste <kalts@estpak.ee> wrote:
> 
> > I've built it yesterday together with a lots of other stuff. Using
> > other -march values than i686 is unofficially claimed to be
> > unsupported (kan@freebsd). As others I'll bet the -march=p4 is
> > causing problems, i686 works for me.
> 
> The only thing I "claimed" was that using -march=p4 and other options
> which imply SSE2 with gcc 3.2.x is asking for trouble. Judging by the
> number of bugfixes that were committed to GCC mainline for SSE2 related
> problems, I am not that far off base. AFAIK, none of those bugfixes made
> it back to GCC 3.2.x branch. 

Ok, this is a good claim and making it public will be even better.
The p4 optimisation is known to be problematic and users should be
notified before they'll shoot the foot off. IMO it will be a good
idea to add some logic into appropriate global makefile, to notify
users. It's long time problem now and comes up periodically in the
lists.
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
kalts@estpak.ee

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