On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 03:15:20PM -0500, elijah wright wrote: > > > For the C programming language, this means the following > > compilation parameters should be used: > > > > CC = gcc > > CFLAGS = -O2 -g -Wall > > > > though -O3 is probably OK in most cases. You should keep the > > optimizations options as conservative as possible, unless you really > > in my experience compiling stuff with -O3 just means that people on other > architectures (where GCC may do odd things) will eventually probably file > bugs on your package that can be fixed by moving back to -O2. > > I've seen this happen on alpha repeatedly, and i seem to recall that sparc > and powerpc occasionally have this issue as well.
I know how tricky these issues are, but it sounds like the bugs should more appropriately be filed against gcc on archs. where -O3 breaks. Unless it's squirrelly and it's really not broken on those architectures, but the *app* is somehow doing something wrong.
