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On 06/28/2010 10:51 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:44:54 +0300 |
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> Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> You've forgotten "make --as-needed not break correct code by making |
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>>> the linker ignore explicit instructions from a program author to |
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>>> link two things together". Until you do that, --as-needed is in the |
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>>> same category as -ffast-math. |
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>> And we can't be held hostage by few packages (marginal cases), that's |
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>> why we have function called $(no-as-needed) in flag-o-matic.eclass to |
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>> disable the behavior for these packages. |
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> Will Gentoo be doing the same for -Ofast and its flags then? After all, |
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> most packages work with them, and you can't let the few packages that |
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> require standard-compliant behaviour from a compiler hold Gentoo |
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> hostage. |
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This is not about optimizing but preventing clear breakage, the benefits |
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of asneeded are not under debate here (like already stated in the |
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original message this thread started from) |
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So please stop trying to derail the thread |
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- Samuli |
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