On 25/02/13 23:21, Rich Freeman wrote: > My point was just that: > 1. No, the fact that entire packages fail to build/operate using > -ffast-math is not a valid bug.
>From your email the message was the opposite, maybe a not got lost? > 2. If individual packages DO carefully use -ffast-math and that > breaks, it might be a valid bug, and may or may not be a blocker > depending on real-world impact. That doesn't mean users sticking it > in their CFLAGS - it means the ebuild or upstream build system > carefully applied the flag appropriately. That means that if the upstream cflags do not work (anymore?) with certain compilers we should notify them. Seems sensible to do. lu