-fno-strict-aliasing

[RMH]

> 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

World of 5.1 runs fine when compiled with -O2 (every day use, sometimes
under a pretty load); though I use GCC 2.95.4 instead of 3.x.x, on i386.
Just my two cents.

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Regards,
 Rhett



	
	
		
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