On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Gregory Bond wrote:

GB> >   My understanding is that whether or not -O2 *should* produce exactly
GB> > equivalent code to -O, there are recurrent reports of people having
GB> > trouble doing a buildworld with -O2 in -stable or in 4.x release
GB> > trains, where their problems go away when they revert back to -O.
GB>
GB> The TCP checksum code seems to be the most common culprit - compiling with -O2
GB> seems to create checksum routines that fail in certain corner cases, meaning
GB> some hosts or some data patterns cause TCP sessions to freeze.
GB>
GB> [I've not seen it myself, but it has been reported here a couple of times.]

It possibly has been fixed recently:

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=727930+0+archive/2002/cvs-all/20020707.cvs-all

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                   [DM5020, DM268-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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