HEADS UP: Ports are not ready for CFLAGS=-O2 in 6.0

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Fri Nov 5 14:21:22 PST 2004


On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 11:16:51PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Friday, 5. November 2004 22:56, Michael Johnson wrote:
> > On Nov 5, 2004, at 4:52 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > > Same as on 6.x - the bugs are in the ports themselves.  Don't do it if
> > > you want your ports to work correctly.
> >
> > Is there a list of what's broke with -O2 in ports anywhere?
> 
> It's kinda hard to come up with one based on compiler warnings & paranoia. :)

It might be hard to come up with a definitive list of problems, but
the fact that there are bugs in many ports that are manifested when
they are compiled with -O2 is undeniable.

Kris
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