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Date:      Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:01:32 +0800
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compiling with high optimization?
Message-ID:  <20030209160132.GC33928@skywalker.creative.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20030209150120.GA2263@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Sun, Feb 09, 2003, David Schultz wrote:

> > Yet squid under i386 freebsd is .. well, finds -O bugs in gcc.
> > We gave up trying -O under FreeBSD a long time ago. :-)
> 
> The last time someone told me, ``gcc -O is broken'', it turned out
> that they were doing some stack fiddling, and gcc's optimizations
> broke their faulty assumptions.  On the other hand, I'm sure gcc -O
> does have bugs.  Do you have an example snippet that gets miscompiled?

Err, grab the squid24 port, hack the configure script to remove the
bit where it removes -O for FreeBSD, compile, install, run.

It should die quite quickly after you submit a HTTP request which
requires a DNS lookup - GCC generates an xor %eax, %eax at the beginning
of a function which NULLs a pointer - that we're not NULLing. :-)




Adrian

-- 
Adrian Chadd			<angryskul> learning is bad
<adrian@FreeBSD.org>		  <angryskul> it just makes the people around you dumber
(angryskul == alfred@irc)	    <angryskul> :(


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