On Sat, Feb 08, 2003, 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.

Yet squid under i386 freebsd is .. well, finds -O bugs in gcc.
We gave up trying -O under FreeBSD a long time ago. :-)

(note: I've seen better performance gains by telling gcc exactly what
CPU you have over -O65536 ..)



Adrian

-- 
Adrian Chadd                    <angryskul> learning is bad
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>              <angryskul> it just makes the people around you 
dumber
(angryskul == alfred@irc)           <angryskul> :(


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Reply via email to