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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:29:54
Message-Id: 512BE5E9.2040903@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking by Rich Freeman
1 On 25/02/13 23:21, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > My point was just that:
3 > 1. No, the fact that entire packages fail to build/operate using
4 > -ffast-math is not a valid bug.
5
6 From your email the message was the opposite, maybe a not got lost?
7
8 > 2. If individual packages DO carefully use -ffast-math and that
9 > breaks, it might be a valid bug, and may or may not be a blocker
10 > depending on real-world impact. That doesn't mean users sticking it
11 > in their CFLAGS - it means the ebuild or upstream build system
12 > carefully applied the flag appropriately.
13
14 That means that if the upstream cflags do not work (anymore?) with
15 certain compilers we should notify them. Seems sensible to do.
16
17 lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.7 unmasking Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>