ACPI-CA 20040527 import

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 7 01:18:21 PDT 2004


On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 03:18:15PM -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 06:37:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > Mark Santcroos <marks at ripe.net> writes:
> > > Any idea why I'm not seeing it?
> > 
> > Because you're not building with -O2, like you should.
> 
> I think DES forgot to say "for testing purposes."

Normal AMD64, Sparc64, and IA-64 kernels are build with -O2.
For others "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing" is probably quite usable.

> Also, why do we trust -O2 when there's still no assurance that the reason
> it's broken with ppp(8) is a ppp(8) C bug itself?

Why don't you trust 'gcc -O2' when the rest of the world can use -O2 and
-O3 on their code bases??  (this includes large enterprise applications)

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