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