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On Wednesday 11 April 2007 11:39:50 Daniel Iliev wrote: |
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> Exactly what kind of damage are you talking about? Don't you think if |
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> there was a real problem with -O3, gentoo devs would have excluded it as |
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> an option, especially when they have an easy to apply mechanism for |
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> doing that (I have in mind the "filter-flags" && "replace-flags" |
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> functions in the ebuilds)? |
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-O3 is replaced where necessary because it's supported by Gentoo. Unsupported |
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flags are mostly not filtered as Gentoo devs don't wish to hide problems |
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caused by stupid users. Bugs caused by unsupported flags are therefore mostly |
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resolved invalid. |
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[SNIP] |
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> It is my opinion that the statements like "-O3 is wrong and can do damage" |
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> is nothing but FUD. |
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It's true if you don't use Gentoo ebuilds. |
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Bo Andresen |
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