Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 14:30:26 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Mike Jakubik <mikej@trigger.net> Cc: Current <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: buildworld failure Message-ID: <3F4F8DB2.8040701@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <JCEIKJMCANNPGKFKGLKLCEGIDMAA.mikej@trigger.net> References: <JCEIKJMCANNPGKFKGLKLCEGIDMAA.mikej@trigger.net>
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Mike Jakubik wrote:
>
> I think the impact is more social. People will try to compile world and get
> failures. Specially people coming from the 4.x branch, where this sort of
> think never occurred. If this is the only thing preventing a clean makeworld
> with -O2, I think its worth taking a look at.
It is not true "this sort of thing" never occurred. We have never, ever,
supported anything above -O because it has always given trouble.
> I've been using freebsd since the 2.x days, I have always compiled world
> and ports with -O2, and never had any instability issues due to the
> optimizations. I have switched back to -O and -march=pentium4, the
> buildworld finished ok.
Lucky you. It does happen that these optimizations may result in code
with no apparent problem, depending on one's hardware, though I suspect
many people's "hardware problems" were nothing of the sort.
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