-fno-strict-aliasing
Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com
Mon Feb 9 18:17:26 PST 2004
Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:11:58AM -0500, Richard Coleman wrote:
>
>>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".
>
>
> It's "don't even try unless you plan to fix them".
>
> Kris
I don't have any problem with that. The person that started the thread
(Bruno) was actually looking at the code (at least the Makefiles).
I guess my point is that we should never dampen someone's enthusiasm for
fixing bugs. We can be pretty grumpy around here sometimes :-)
Richard Coleman
richardcoleman at mindspring.com
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