Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 15:07:43 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I see that a number of packages in the tree explicitly filter -ffast-math.That's mostly from the bad old days when users were encouraged to use silly CFLAGS...
1. _When_ was this? 2. _Who_ was encouraging this?. . . because it sure as hell hasn't ever been in the official documentation.
Last year I wrote the optimization guide[1] in part to stem the flood of bad advice on the unofficial gentoo-wiki, and by uninformed users on the forums.
There hasn't been any official documentation telling users to do foolish things with their CFLAGS or LDFLAGS.
[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-optimization.xml
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