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Re: debian/patches status: linux.cf and xfree86.cf patches



On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 02:48:39PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 13:41, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:47:54PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > > 
> > > * In xfree86.cf, DefaultGcc2i386Opt, DefaultGcc2AxpOpt, and DefaultGcc2PpcOpt 
> > > are defined to contain GccAliasingArgs.  But in linux.cf, they're defined to 
> > > *not* contain it.
> > > 
> > > Note that GccAliasingArgs was introduced upstream sometime after 4.2.  How 
> > > precisely should it be handled for Debian?
> > 
> > Good question.  I'd like to solicit suggestions from the mailing list.
> > :)
> > 
> > If the XFree86 codebase is strict-aliasing safe, we can do without
> > -fno-strict-aliasing.
> 
> It traditionally wasn't, and I haven't seen anything to suggest that
> this has been fixed.

Okay.  We should definitely ensure that every arch uses GccAliasingArgs,
then.

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