Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 18:45:18 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiling with high optimization? Message-ID: <20030209174518.GD70234@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030209002542.GA20812@HAL9000.homeunix.com> References: <20030208173756.GA56030@arkadia.nv.cox.net> <20030208232724.GA20435@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3E459BF3.BB3FC381@mindspring.com> <20030209002542.GA20812@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:25:42PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Yes, the possibility of being bitten by compiler bugs is certainly > higher with higher optimization levels. Alpha with -O2 seems to > have been broken for years, and I have seen strange things happen > on IA64 as well. But the i386 code generators have received much > wider testing and debugging, so there is somewhat less danger there. I'm always compiling -current on alpha and i386 with -O2 since months. I havn't noticed any compiler related problems lately. But I never used CPUTYPE over 586/mmx and ev56 as my -current machines end here. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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