From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 7 1:41:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-158.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF79637B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:41:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A12E366E1B; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:41:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 01:41:39 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ARCH flag in new make.conf Message-ID: <20010307014139.A27133@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010307013439I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010307013439I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:34:39AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:34:39AM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: "Hartmann, O." > Subject: ARCH flag in new make.conf > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:30:33 +0100 (CET) >=20 > > I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming n= ew > > FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters for= the > > CPU architecture. And I will tell you why. >=20 > It's not supposed to be set by the "general public" and failing to > note this was an error, thanks. I've just committed the following patch: No, I think you're overreacting significantly here -- there just isn't a large amount of evidence showing that -march=3D<...> produces bad code, and this is the first suggestion I've heard that it does so. In fact, David O'Brien has been very supportive of the CPUTYPE code so far, and he should know better than anyone which gcc optimizations are dangerous on FreeBSD (e.g. he was the one who added the nasty warnings for -O2 under alpha. Kris --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6pgJSWry0BWjoQKURAox6AJ9rS62bSIzjIDaTevpmTgg5Nlli9QCeOvza WdM+ZNJdlWq7UYI/jpAtu9k= =/WFV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --45Z9DzgjV8m4Oswq-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message