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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic.sk@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:35:56
Message-Id: efmrae$jff$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 03:48:53PM -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >> Lionel Bouton wrote:
4 >>> There are already good resources (http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS_matrix
5 >>> was mentioned to me by robbat2) but they may not be advertised enough.
6 >> Most of the info on that page is wrong.
7 > The items on there that note breakages are reasonably correct.
8 > -fvisibility=hidden and -ffast-math DO cause breakages.
9 >
10 > -ftree-loop-linear likewise is broken on GCC4.1 last I checked.
11
12 I thought he wanted flags that broke upgrading between GCC 3.4 and 4.1.
13 tree-loop-linear wasn't in 3.4. If you want flags that just break
14 stuff with 4.1 you can include -ftree-vectorize.
15
16 >>> I'd like to propose a paragraph to the GWN editor which presents some
17 >>> gotchas and good references on the subject.
18 >> Honestly, the only good reference is the Safe CFLAGS page.
19 > The objective here was mainly to point out some things that users are
20 > doing that are causing breakages, leading to bugs that are ultimately
21 > marked INVALID after much tracing.
22
23 Like using CFLAGS not on the Safe CFLAGS page? ;)
24
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26 Monsieur Spanky wrote:
27 > no way will our documentation link to gentoo-wiki.com
28
29 It's not documentation, it's the GWN, which has linked to gentoo-wiki
30 before.
31
32
33 --de.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] CFLAGS paragraph for the GWN Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>