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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:35:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      mi@aldan.algebra.com
To:        wilko@freebsd.org
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommended compilation optimizations
Message-ID:  <200007242135.RAA35319@misha.privatelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000724232237.C1105@freebie.demon.nl>

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On 24 Jul, Wilko Bulte wrote:
= On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 02:42:05PM -0400, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote:
= > On 24 Jul, David O'Brien wrote:
= > = On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 01:29:11PM -0400, mi@aldan.algebra.com wrote:
= > = > Instead  of encouraging  bug-reports,  the attitude  has so  far
= > = > been: "well,  if you use  high optimization  -- you are  on your
= > = > own",
= > = 
= > = But reports  are of  course welcomed. The  attituded is  for those
= > = that want working  binaries vs. setting up an  environment to test
= > = bugs.
= > 
= > Please,  allow me  to  one more  time restate  my  point before  the
= > audience gets  bored. I  think, the developers  should be  using the
= > higher
= 
= 				^^--- make that the gcc developers..
= 
= AFAIK the FreeBSD project tries to take gcc & friends as-is as much as
= possible.

As I've indicated a couple of  times, I personally found an optimization
bug non-reproduceable on Linux (Mandrake). I believe linux kernel is, by
default, being  built with high  optimizations and linux  machines don't
fall all over because of that. This all suggests, that there are FreeBSD
specific  issues with  GCC. So  ``make that  all developers''  -- anyone
who  can construct  a meaningful  bug-report  should be  using the  high
optimization.  When such  bug-reports are  submitted, they  need to  get
serious  attention,  especially, when  there  is  evidence, the  bug  is
FreeBSD specific.

	-mi




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