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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 2004 10:37:33 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -fno-strict-aliasing
Message-ID:  <20040222183733.GI91129@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <4027D933.2030206@acm.org>
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:02:11AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Richard Coleman wrote:
> > I think it would be more honest if the party line was "FreeBSD 
> >has bugs, so we can't use -O2 right now" rather than the standard reply 
> >of "-O2 is not supported, don't even try".
> 
> I think the party line is very honest:
> 
>   "You are not the one millionth person to report this,
>   so you don't get a prize.  However, you could be the
>   first person to fix it.  ;-)"

I would love to make -O2 work.  But as long as "lib/libpam" is on the
list of things to fix, that isn't going to happen.  Someone needs to
pressure DES to fix his babies [that he wont let others touch].

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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