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Date:      Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:47:30 +0000
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DEFAULT CFLAGS SETTING
Message-ID:  <20070309144730.30ac6aba@gumby.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <45F0EAF2.2010303@u.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:04:50 -0800
Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Christian Walther wrote:
> > On 08/03/07, White Hat <pigskin_referee@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> What is the default CFLAGS setting in FBSD-6.2 and would it
> >> improve performance any to set
> >>
> >> CFLAGS=Os
> >>
> >> as opposed to the default setting?
> >>
> > CFLAGS can be defined in /etc/make.conf
> > My CFLAGS is set to -O2 -pipe. 

Note that by explicitly defining CFLAGS, you override the
-fno-strict-aliasing that's set by default. 

FreeBSD provides sensible defaults for all of these things, based on
CPUTYPE. 

 
> As mentioned when I asked the question a while back, be careful about 
> how you "optimize" freebsd. 
>...
> I was told to add -fno-strict-aliasing, 




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