-fno-strict-aliasing

[Bruno T.]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 23:07:00 -0800
David Schultz <das at FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004, 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.
> > 
> > usr.sbin/kldxref/Makefile
> > lib/libc/Makefile
> > lib/libpam/Makefile
> > libexec/ypxfr/Makefile
> > usr.sbin/rpc.yppasswd/Makefile
> 
> I assume the problem is some specific C sources, rather than the
> Makefiles themselves.  It's generally known that there are a few
> aliasing problems lurking around the source tree that break
> -fstrict-aliasing, and patches to fix them would be appreciated.

Thanks,
   I'll cook up that patches later tonight and send them back here.
   previously i just changed the makefiles because i haven't a good perspective of 
   the whole base system stuff.:)