From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 19 10:04:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA16282 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:04:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from B1FF.nas.nasa.gov (b1ff.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.34.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA16277 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rone@B1FF.nas.nasa.gov) Received: (from rone@localhost) by B1FF.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18486 for stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:03:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rone) From: Ron Echeverri Message-Id: <199808191703.KAA18486@B1FF.nas.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: MAKEDEV: arith: syntax error: "" In-Reply-To: <199808190331.XAA02689@jhicks.glenatl.glenayre.com> from Jerry Hicks at "Aug 18, 98 11:31:22 pm" To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 10:03:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jerry Hicks writes: > Meanwhile, simply be advised that optimiser levels above -O > are known to cause problems, and don't yield any significant performance > benefits. I've seen this come up many times... Does it make sense to whack the options parsed from argv to force -O as long as we're using 2.7.x? Or, at the very least, have it spit out a "WARNING: optimization levels above -O are known to be broken. Proceed at your own risk." message. rone -- Ron Echeverri Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation Facility DSS/Usenet Administrator NASA Ames Research Center Internet Sysop Mountain View, CA x42771 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message