make.conf for 6.0

Chris chrcoluk at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 12:57:30 PDT 2005


On 22/10/05, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
> dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > My make.conf contains (fbsd-5.4)
> > CFLAGS= -O -pipe
> > COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe
> >
> > Are these settings the same for the upcoming release6 or do I need to
> > set -O2 in this new version?
>
> FreeBSD is moving towards "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing" by default [1], but there
> is nothing wrong with using "-O" only.  On most platforms, there isn't much
> difference between -O and -O2, although -O2 does help more with the x86
> architecture.
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
Hmm so using "-O2" is bad in 5.4 and it should be "-O2 -fno-strict-aliasing"?

Chris


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