On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Antony T Curtis wrote:
:>Kris Kennaway wrote:
:>>
:>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:30:33AM +0100, Hartmann, O. wrote:
:>> > Dear Sirs.
:>> >
:>> > I'm really confused and surprised by the fact, that with the upcoming new
:>> > FreeBSD 4.3 in its make.conf we can choose architectural parameters for the
:>> > CPU architecture. And I will tell you why.
:>
:><snip>
:>
:>> I've been running NIS on FreeBSD with world and kernel compiled with
:>> -march=pentiumpro for about 9 months with no ill effects. In fact
:>> I've never heard of reports of bad code generation using the -march
:>> settings -- it appears to be very stable. Are you sure you didn't
:>> have a nonstandard optimization setting (-O2, etc) as well?
:>
:>I have world compiled with -O2 with no ill effect (that I have noticed)
:>but if I compile the kernel with -O2, it looks okay but has problems
:>with talking TCP/IP - seems to generate faulty checksums and some other
:>quirks.... To put it simply, stable kernels are only with -O (in my
:>experience)
:>
:>(however, I have compiled KLDs with -O2 with no ill effect)
:>
:>--
:>ANTONY T CURTIS Tel: +44 (1635) 36222
:>Abacus Polar Holdings Ltd Fax: +44 (1635) 38670
:>> Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
:>> Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
:>> -- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary
:>
As I said before in the list: kernel and other code were compiled
with -O, not -O2.
--
MfG
O. Hartmann
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