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


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