-fno-strict-aliasing

[Richard Coleman]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 02:28:20AM -0200, Bruno T. wrote:
> 
>>Hi everyone.
>>i'm pretty new to bsd, but i have some background in linux development
>>and for what i have seen until now, i must say that -CURRENT is rather impressive, congrats !
>>
>>I was rebuilding my base sys and noticed that any compiler flag 
>>that implies -fstrict-aliasing (like -O2) would break some few things,
>>adding "-fno-strict-aliasing" to "CFLAGS+=" in these makefiles
>>solves the problem for now.
> 
> 
> Don't do that then :-)
> 
> Kris

Although it's not urgent, I don't see why the aliasing problems can't be 
fixed.  I think it would be more honest if the party line was "FreeBSD 
has bugs, so we can't use -O2 right now" rather than the standard reply 
of "-O2 is not supported, don't even try".

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com