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