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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2016 02:50:58 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r416661 - in head/lang: . gcc6
Message-ID:  <20160612025056.GA9505@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201606100904.u5A94Fuq018242@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201606100904.u5A94Fuq018242@repo.freebsd.org>

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 09:04:15AM +0000, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> New Revision: 416661
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/416661
> 
> Log:
>   Welcome to the GCC 6.1 release, the first release of the GCC 6 series.
>   
>   The default mode for C++ is now -std=gnu++14 instead of -std=gnu++98.
>   
>   Type-based alias analysis now disambiguates accesses to different pointers.
>   This improves precision of the alias oracle by about 20-30% on higher-level
>   C++ programs. Programs doing invalid type punning of pointer types may now
>   need -fno-strict-aliasing to work correctly.

Luckily we have -fno-strict-aliasing in the default CFLAGS (some interesting
read on the subject: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307, via fanf@).

Also, thanks for the excellent commit message Gerald (as always).

./danfe



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