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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:07:43 -0700 |
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> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I see that a number of packages in the tree explicitly filter |
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>> -ffast-math. |
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> That's mostly from the bad old days when users were encouraged to use |
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> silly CFLAGS... |
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1. _When_ was this? |
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2. _Who_ was encouraging this? |
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. . . because it sure as hell hasn't ever been in the official |
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documentation. |
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Last year I wrote the optimization guide[1] in part to stem the flood of |
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bad advice on the unofficial gentoo-wiki, and by uninformed users on the |
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forums. |
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There hasn't been any official documentation telling users to do foolish |
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things with their CFLAGS or LDFLAGS. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-optimization.xml |