[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Policy for bugs because of CFLAGS (was: use flags)

[Jörg Schaible]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:

> On Friday 12 November 2004 00:58, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>> Seesh. You're right. I was talking about CFLAGS. Now, is there a policy
>> for "standard accepted safe CFLAGS" ? I know, it is my problem, if
>> something really breaks. But I have really a lot of apps running with
>> my (not too esoteric) settings, and if one single app fails badly (just
>> core dumps) and I can track it down to a single CFLAG flag, what is the
>> actual policy (if there is one)? Why is a filter for the flag just
>> recected?
>
> One thing that I use as baseline is that if "info gcc" says that it is not
> safe (such as -ffast-math, -fno-rtti, -fnoexceptions and various others).
> Many of these optimization options are application specific and should be
> set by the upstream build scripts. In other words, filtering away to
> avoid compiler bugs is something I'm willing to do, filtering away stupid
> defaults is not.

OK, fine with me. But for the standard ones (turned on by -Os, -O1, -O2)
this should be not the problem.

- Jörg


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