Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:12:16 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: green@FreeBSD.ORG, schuerge@wjpserver.CS.Uni-SB.DE, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still kernel compilation failures Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990723081216.007a75b0@192.168.255.1> In-Reply-To: <199907230424.OAA01541@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 14:24 23/07/99 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: >>> > Put -O back in the COPTFLAGS. >>> >>> It works now. Is there any explaination why -O is required? :) >> >>Noone compiles without -O, so(/and) it's not supported. My take is > >It is supported, but someone broke it. > >>that EGCS says "Hey, I am in optimization level foobar! I can optimize >>for unused code. Hmm... that's unused, so...". Either that or its >>debugging support is really uNFed up. > >-O works because optimisation removes an unused reference to a nonexistent >variable. The variable once existed and was used. It still exists under >a different name. So you're saying that both the compiler and the code are broken? -- Bob Bishop +44 118 977 4017 rb@gid.co.uk fax +44 118 989 4254 (0800-1800 UK) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.6.32.19990723081216.007a75b0>