begin quote On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:56:28 -0700 Riyad Kalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You can get a gist of this (not necessarily benchmarks, but stability > results) in the CFLags central thread. It took me the better part of 3 Well, I have the gist of it, more or less ;-) > > As regards to -ffast-math. It makes a hell of a difference in math > > related things, but all applications that the developers think are > > safe and should have it, are already so (mplayer,ffmpeg,xine... > > check compile logs ;) > > This is a very interesting fact that I'm glad to hear! Now I don't > need to feel bad about not abusing my make flags. be glad, because the packs where developers (upstream) think they should work have them, and other packs that break with it will keep breaking because its a lot of overhead to try and debug insane combinations of useflags for other packages. > > genflags suggests -O3 on the systems I mention above, even though -O3 > isn't promised to be stable... any concerns? Or are the packages that > -O3 would typically effect, written to clear the make flags (gcc, > binutils, etc) before compiling? Yep, in packages where -O3 has been reported to cause trouble, that is stripped inside the ebuild. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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