On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I disagree. Choosing the compiler options is exactly the job of the
> installer, packager, or distributor.
If there is one, yes.
> I don't think we're doing anyone a service if we spread wild speculations
> about how risky certain compiler options are. If your compiler creates
> broken code, don't use it. Packagers are expected to know about their
> compiler. If they create broken packages and behave irresponsibly about
> it they won't be making packages much longer.
However, many users are not as knowledgable as packagers, but may
still be compiling from source. For those people, I don't think it's
unreasonable to say, "Use -O2 unless you know what you are doing."
(I'm not sure we're actually disagreeing here, but I just wanted to make
this point clear.)
cjs
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