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Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:00:37 +0800
From:	Pengfei Yuan <0xcoolypf@...il.com>
To:	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why not build kernel with -O3

Could you please provide some examples that I can investigate?
Thanks!

2015-04-08 2:05 GMT+08:00 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>:
> On 2015-04-07 06:09, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>> On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 15:56 +0800, Pengfei Yuan wrote:
>>> I am trying legacy GCC versions.
>>> But I am not able to try different architectures.
>>
>> The point of my reply wasn't to get you to actually test the world ;-)
>>
>> I was indirectly pointing out that "works for me" is not good enough
>> justification.  Much checking for safety/benefit required.
>>
> Safety especially, -O3 is known to cause perfectly standards-compliant
> code to break in weird ways in user-space.
>
>
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