HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0
Jon Noack
noackjr at alumni.rice.edu
Fri Nov 5 16:15:09 PST 2004
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 04:56:03PM -0500, Michael Johnson wrote:
>>> Is there a list of what's broke with -O2 in ports anywhere?
>>
>> Some of the bugs are probably silent. For example, different versions
>> of gcc sometimes have bugs at higher optimization levels or with
>> certain CPUTYPE values.
>
> As far as we know, that is not the case for FreeBSD 5.3 and 6.0.
Not a port issue, but did you see the "CPUTYPE?=athlon-xp breaks loader"
thread? Another person mentioned a similar issue with a Pentium M. So
not *all* is well in the base system... That said, it only happened to me
on my AMD system and all the Intel boxes I administer are fine with -O2
and CPUTYPE.
Jon
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